Huge errors.log daemons.log and everything.log [SOLVED]

pivonroll · 2009-07-06 11:13:35

Ok people i have i big problem since my last update, wich happened yesterday.
errors.log, daemons.log and everything.log are extremly huge over 1.3G per file.
I tried this to make them smaller with this:
>errors.log
>daemons.log
>everything.log
and this helps for about 5 mins, but after that 5 mins, those three files are growing large again.
logrotate is in my /etc/cron.daily. Should i put it in /etc/cron.hourly. Is this gonna help me with my problem or is it something else that causes it.

This is the message that is written over and over in errors.log:
Jul 6 13:06:44 myhost famd[2151]: fd 4 message length 1347375956 bytes exceeds max of 4136.

This one is from daemon.log:
Jul 6 13:08:09 myhost famd[2151]: fd 4 message length 1347375956 bytes exceeds max of 4136.

And this one is fron everything.log:
Jul 6 13:09:03 myhost famd[2151]: fd 4 message length 1347375956 bytes exceeds max of 4136.

As you can see this is the same message in all three files.

This is the outputos ps -ax command:

PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? Ss 0:00 ini
2 ? S< 0:00 [kthreadd]
3 ? S< 0:00 [migration/0]
4 ? S< 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
5 ? S< 0:00 [watchdog/0]
6 ? S< 0:00 [migration/1]
7 ? R< 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
8 ? S< 0:00 [watchdog/1]
9 ? S< 0:00 [events/0]
10 ? S< 0:00 [events/1]
11 ? S< 0:00 [khelper]
12 ? S< 0:00 [async/mgr]
13 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/0]
14 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/1]
15 ? S< 0:00 [kacpid]
16 ? S< 0:00 [kacpi_notify]
17 ? S< 0:00 [kseriod]
18 ? S 0:00 [khungtaskd]
19 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
20 ? S 0:01 [pdflush]
21 ? S< 0:00 [kswapd0]
22 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0]
23 ? S< 0:00 [aio/1]
24 ? S< 0:00 [crypto/0]
25 ? S< 0:00 [crypto/1]
38 ? S< 0:00 [ata/0]
39 ? S< 0:00 [ata/1]
40 ? S< 0:00 [ata_aux]
44 ? S< 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
45 ? S< 0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
48 ? S< 0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
49 ? S< 0:00 [scsi_eh_3]
309 ? S< 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
331 ? S< 0:00 [khubd]
539 ? S< 0:00 [usbhid_resumer]
585 ? S< 0:00 [kjournald]
609 ? S<s 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
674 ? S< 0:00 [hd-audio0]
1456 ? S< 0:00 [kpsmoused]
1923 ? S 0:00 supervising syslog-ng
1924 ? Ss 17:00 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng
1954 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd -q eth0
1970 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond
1985 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
1988 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
1991 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
1992 ? S 0:00 hald-runner
2082 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event4
2122 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 16 sec)
2138 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpi kernel interface /proc/acpi/event
2143 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/rpcbind
2151 ? Ss 9:37 /usr/sbin/famd -T 0 -c /etc/fam/fam.conf
2166 ? S 0:02 /usr/bin/timidity -iAD
2200 tty1 Ss 0:00 /bin/login --
2201 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/2 linux
2202 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/3 linux
2203 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/4 linux
2204 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/5 linux
2205 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/6 linux
2206 ? Ss 0:00 /opt/ibm/db2/V9.5/bin/db2fmcd
2207 tty1 S 0:00 -bash
2210 tty1 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx
2226 tty1 S+ 0:00 xinit /home/radovan/.xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :0 -auth /home/radovan/.serverauth.2210
2227 tty7 S<s+ 1:07 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp
2235 tty1 S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde
2262 tty1 S 0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
2263 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
2269 ? Ss 0:00 kdeinit4: kdeinit4 Running...
2270 ? S 0:00 klauncher
2272 ? S 0:00 kded4
2283 tty1 S 0:00 kwrapper4 ksmserver
2284 ? Sl 0:00 ksmserver
2286 ? S 0:47 kwin -session 10e0ed686f000124296811100000033390000_1243359004_612398
2287 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/kwrited
2290 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/knotify4
2291 ? Sl 0:35 /usr/bin/plasma
2294 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukserver
2296 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/kaccess
2298 ? S 0:02 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukstorage
2307 ? S 0:01 /usr/bin/krunner
2309 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukfilewatch
2310 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukontologyloader
2311 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukqueryservice
2317 ? S 0:00 kmix -session 10e0ed686f000124296811600000033390010_1243359004_602182
2319 ? R 26:01 python /usr/bin/printer-applet
2321 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/klipper
2328 ? S 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:
2365 ? Sl 0:00 /home/dasusr1/das/adm/db2dasrrm
2385 ? S 0:00 /opt/ibm/db2/V9.5/das/bin/db2fmd -i dasusr1 -m /opt/ibm/db2/V9.5/das/lib/libdb2dasgcf.so.1
2553 ? S 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_http [kdeinit] http local:
2896 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/yaspd
2897 ? S 0:00 ksysguardd
2931 ? Sl 1:23 /usr/bin/firefox
2936 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/GConf/gconfd-2
3997 ? S 0:08 /usr/bin/dolphin -icon system-file-manager -caption Dolphin /home/radovan
4189 ? Rl 0:03 /usr/bin/konsole
4191 pts/1 Ss 0:00 /bin/bash
4192 pts/1 S 0:00 su
4193 pts/1 S 0:00 bash
4467 pts/1 S 0:00 su radovan
4468 pts/1 S 0:00 bash
4490 pts/1 S 0:00 su
4491 pts/1 S 0:01 bash
5260 pts/1 R+ 0:00 ps -ax

Sorry for my Tarzan English. I hope someone can help me.

Edit:Ok i have killed famd daemon and those three log files are now normal. Was it ok for me to kill it, i mean is it safe?

Last edited by pivonroll (2009-07-06 11:59:09)

Allan · 2009-07-06 11:20:53

Try restarting fam using "/etc/rc.d/fam restart". I can not track down what is causing that issue...

pivonroll · 2009-07-06 11:27:35

OK i did what you suggested. It works!
Thx man

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#1 2009-07-06 11:13:35

Huge errors.log daemons.log and everything.log [SOLVED]

#2 2009-07-06 11:20:53

Re: Huge errors.log daemons.log and everything.log [SOLVED]

#3 2009-07-06 11:27:35

Re: Huge errors.log daemons.log and everything.log [SOLVED]

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