[mythtv-users] Missing log files filling system drive

[Mark Pennock]

My system log file is 20GB, and it doesn't go down.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Mike Holden <mythtv at mikeholden.org> wrote:

> Mark Pennock wrote:
> > I am using a 60 GB ssd for my system drive and I just had to
> > re-install the
> > system due to running a program the completely filled the system
> > drive.
> >
> > My kernel log is 19.6GB in size and it doesn't seem to be
> > auto-rotating so
> > I can delete the old logs.
> >
> > when I run the command: sudo /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
> >
> > ​I get the following error messages:
> >
> > ​error: stat of /var/log/mythtv/mythmediaserver.log failed: No
> > such file or
> > directory
> > error: stat of /var/log/mythtv/mythtranscode.log failed: No such
> > file or
> > directory
> >
> > It seems that these missing files are preventing log roa
>
> I think there may be an issue with a specific version of logrotate
> which puts spurious errors out like this. I'm seeing lots of them
> (on Fedora 20) for files which do physically exist. It doesn't cause
> any issues, apart from a pointless cron email every night!
>
> I don't know if this is what you are seeing though.
> --
> Mike Holden
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
> MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20141217/835d5985/attachment.html>