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Old 08-10-2004, 03:19 PM   #1
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finding program logfiles


Hi!

My computer has been behaving strange lately. I am on RH9 (yeah, I know it kinda sucks but as soon as I get a new machine I'm switching to Gentoo) and just leaving it on required 20 percent of CPU and gkrellm's showing a lot of write to disc. So, I thought to check the program logfiles for size, because it has to scroll to the bottom when it writes anything, so it consumes a lot of cpu. I would then empty them.


So, my question:

Is there any universal (or mainstream) logfile {extension, search criteria, anything else} that I could use to search for them via locate?

Thx in advance,

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Old 08-10-2004, 05:22 PM   #2
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Red Hat 9 ought to keep all of its logs in /var/log. Just browse to that directory and look over its contents. You may see files like "messages.2" or something like that. That just means the logrotate program is working and gradually cycles old log files out (by deleting them). Depending on when your computer is on, logrotate might not have an opportunity to do that maintenance.

If you don't see anything out of the ordinary, then it could be a specific application log. You'll have to read up on any daemons you're running and where they store their log files. There's no set-in-stone rule that says they must go in /var/log that's just where Red Hat chose to put their system logs. You could always try locate '.log'

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Old 08-10-2004, 05:31 PM   #3
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thanks, I'll try that out. Will be back with results.
 
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it seems ok. Must be summat else. Thanks anyway, at least I know where i must look next.
 
  


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