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rsyslog package

  1. Bug #115774
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 115774

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Foice (foice-news) wrote : Re: syslog.0 and kern.log.0 grow huge

Here I am with the very same problem on
2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:06 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
                                                               %CPU
4816 root 20 0 8204 620 500 R 61 0.0 528:55.46 dd
 4818 klog 20 0 6540 3248 460 S 40 0.1 358:39.04 klogd
 4761 syslog 20 0 12364 792 596 S 9 0.0 75:23.64 syslogd

ad several gigas of kern.log.0 syslog.0 and messages.0

is there a fix for this bug? or a limit one can set to the size of log files (at least).
Thanks