SUMMARY: Runaway Syslogd
2007-12-24 21:34:00
> I am seeing hundreds of thousands of duplicate entries in
> my syslog logs. Killing the daemon, null-ing the file, and
> restarting it
> only helps until the next message arrives, at which time the
> syslog file again begins filling up; within an hour or two, it's
> consumed all available space in the logging filesystem.
Thanks to:
Sal Serafino serafino at cshl.edu
Jonathan Hays jhays at jtan.com
Fletcher, Joe joe.fletcher at Metapack.com
Justin Stringfellow Justin.Stringfellow at Sun.COM
This would appear to be pilot error. Restoring a default Solaris 8-
distributed syslog.conf file resolved the problem. Even backing
out the latest syslog patch 110945-04 didn't resolve it.
FWIW, I'd swear the now-suspect syslog.conf file *was* working for
several months before this episode. When time permits, I'll go into
old backup tapes and find it from before this started and see whether
it was recently changed.
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