Related to /var/log/maillig

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Swapana Ghosh wrote:
> Hi
>
>        Thank you very much.
>
> >
> >      We are running   sendmail under linux.
> >      Last few days i am noticing that the /var/log/maillog is being stopped.
> >      I am starting though with *etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start*. But after 2/3
> >      days again it is being stopped.
> >
> >      i could not find out the problem why it is behaving like this..
>
> >>Did you check the messages log to see when it was shutdown?
>
> Yes , after your suggession, i checked the /var/log/messages and found that on
> 13th Jan 2004 it is giving the following messgaes, and just at that time
> /var/log/maillog had been stopped. I mean the last messages at /var/log/maillog
> was at Jan 13 02:30:23.
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Jan 13 02:30:18 server popa3d[7583]: Didn't attempt authentication
> Jan 13 02:30:23 server syslogd: /var/log/maillog: No space left on device
> ___________________________________________________________________
>
>
> And i am seeing the /var  partition is 87% full. The other log files are
> running fine..

And what's the output from "df -h" ?  Its possible that a logrotation cron
job cleaned out some space, but if the partition is small, 87% full could
leave very little breathing room, and logging is definitely not something
that you want to stop.

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