Log size concerns
Hello,
I have a VPS, every month I need to order 20Gb without reason...
Its just a 1 site VPS.
When I checked disk space uses in Cpanel
we see its just 19GB of files
we dont have any backup service turned on. or any backups.
Command: df -h
shows this...
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vzfs 200G 183G 18G 92% /
none 1.5G 4.0K 1.5G 1% /dev
Command: du -sh * | sort -hr | head -n10
shows this...
du: cannot access `proc/5350/task/5350/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `proc/5350/task/5350/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `proc/5350/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `proc/5350/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
152G var
19G home
11G usr
105M root
28M opt
26M lib64
11M lib
7.8M etc
7.5M bin
7.4M sbin
root@vps-1131724-16328 [/var]# du -sh * | sort -hr | head -n10
139G log
6.8G cpanel
3.7G spool
2.7G lib
49M cache
6.2M named
860K db
340K run
64K profiles
40K tmp
root@vps-1131724-16328 [/var/log]# du -sh * | sort -hr | head -n10
135G messages
2.7G j
601M exim_mainlog
486M btmp
323M secure
162M maillog
113M cron
84M messages.tar.gz
83M exim_rejectlog
44M exim_mainlog-20160316.gz
so what the Hell is messages? how to get rid of it?
can anybody help please?
Log rotation size threshold is 300MB but why its going beyond.... how to delete it?
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Hello, Syslog is a standard logging facility which collects messages of various programs and services including the kernel, and stores them, depending on setup, in a bunch of log files typically under /var/log/. You can read about Syslog below: syslog - Wikipedia The file /var/log/messages aims at storing valuable, non-debug and non-critical messages. This log should be considered the "general system activity" log. I would recommend reviewing the contents of the log to determine what is causing this specific log to grow in size, regarding your logs not being properly rotated I was able to locate a similar issue which previously occurred that may provide assistance: logrotate problem Please feel free to open up a ticket with us so that we can investigate this further 0
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