DoubleHP Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 # df -h | grep log armbian-ramlog 50M 5.7M 45M 12% /var/log # ls -lha /var/log | grep -e syslog -e message drwxrwxr-x 11 root syslog 660 Aug 11 22:26 . -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Aug 11 22:15 syslog # systemctl status syslog ● rsyslog.service - System Logging Service Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Sun 2019-08-11 22:25:49 CEST; 9min ago Docs: man:rsyslogd(8) http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/ Main PID: 1042 (rsyslogd) CGroup: /system.slice/rsyslog.service └─1042 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n Aug 11 22:25:49 opi-06-app-c13 systemd[1]: Starting System Logging Service... Aug 11 22:25:49 opi-06-app-c13 systemd[1]: Started System Logging Service. # ls -lha /var/log.hdd/ | grep -e syslog -e message drwxrwxr-x 11 root syslog 4.0K Aug 11 22:25 . -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Aug 11 22:15 syslog -rw-r----- 1 root root 28M Mar 4 06:25 syslog.1 -rw-r----- 1 root root 212K Mar 3 06:25 syslog.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 root root 2.9M Mar 2 06:25 syslog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 root root 1.9M Mar 1 06:25 syslog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 root root 791K Feb 28 06:25 syslog.5.gz it probably worked at some point ... forgot what I did to break it ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabbronet Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 It's a permission issue, with: chmod -R 777 /var/log Syslog started to fill up. Same thing with mongodb and many other daemons. Few apt-updates ago I didn't have this problem but I still don't know what caused the issue...maybe log2ram... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleHP Posted October 19, 2019 Author Share Posted October 19, 2019 Yes, much better: # ls -lha /var/log | grep -e syslog -e message drwxrwxrwx 11 root syslog 660 Oct 19 19:46 . -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6.7K Oct 19 20:43 syslog Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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