Bug with SYSLOG

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 08:06:07AM +0000, Upadhyay Manas Vijay (PSI) wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and am facing a weird problem with syslog. I
> found that the kern.log files are exceptionally large compared to
> other files. (there were several kern.log files, I deleted the older
> versions). The latest ken.log file is currently occupying 37.9 GB
> space. This started happening three days ago. I had a user program
> running and I locked my computer screen. After a few hours when I
> logged back in I found that my diskspace was zero. This happened again
> yesterday. In principle, this program shouldn't be the cause of the
> program because I have run the same code without modifications before
> and it didn't generate large amounts of data. I am not sure where the
> problem comes from. Perhaps you could help.

It's probably bug 1630516[1] for which there is currently a package in
-proposed to fix the problem. The bug report's description and some
comments contain detailed information about how to enabled -proposed and
test the package.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/logrotate/+bug/1630516

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Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master
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