[SOLVED] log explosion fix

[twg]

So I'm running unRaid 4.7. I'm having some trouble where the logs are exploding and corrupting my unRaid session. I'm trying to track down the issues causing the log explosion and I think I have found it, however, I want to implement this to prevent log explosion from crashing my unRaid (which I think is kind of ridiculous).

 

I found this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3352.15

 

I created a script and am calling the script from /boot/config/go

 

But it didn't work, the symbolic link was failing because the syslog file still exists in /var/log, I had to do this instead to get it to work, is this the right approach or is there a better way ?

 

/etc/rc.d/rc.syslog stop

mkdir /tmp/log

mount tmpfs /tmp/log -t tmpfs

cp /var/log/syslog /tmp/log/

rm /var/log/syslog

ln -s /tmp/log/syslog /var/log/syslog

/etc/rc.d/rc.syslog start

[Joe L.]

So I'm running unRaid 4.7. I'm having some trouble where the logs are exploding and corrupting my unRaid session. I'm trying to track down the issues causing the log explosion and I think I have found it, however, I want to implement this to prevent log explosion from crashing my unRaid (which I think is kind of ridiculous).

 

I found this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3352.15

 

I created a script and am calling the script from /boot/config/go

 

But it didn't work, the symbolic link was failing because the syslog file still exists in /var/log, I had to do this instead to get it to work, is this the right approach or is there a better way ?

 

/etc/rc.d/rc.syslog stop

mkdir /tmp/log

mount tmpfs /tmp/log -t tmpfs

cp /var/log/syslog /tmp/log/

rm /var/log/syslog

ln -s /tmp/log/syslog /var/log/syslog

/etc/rc.d/rc.syslog start

It looks fine.  You could have moved the current syslog instead of removing it if it had anything you wanted to keep:

mv /var/log/syslog /var/syslog.old