Stack Trace On Logs For Indication On Hardware Shut Down

I have a Kubuntu install that works fine but for some reason, it grows the logs into hundreds of GBs.

Is there a method to prevent those logs from growing so large? I researched "log rotate" but I couldn't understand it.

I would like something established such that after a certain size, the logs are automatically deleted so I don't have to do it manually each time.

How would I do so?

Here are the logs:

#1: /var/log/syslog
#2: /var/log/kern.log

I already determined I don't need them, so I would like to auto-delete them once they reach a certain size.

Thank you.

I get kernel panics and computer shut down when trying to install and run Linux Mint 17 Mate and Linux Mint 17.1 on an older HP laptop. The laptop is a Pavilion dv 5140 with 2.0GHz AMD Turion chip, 2.0 Gigs ram and 120GB hard drive. Linux is the only software installed on the computer. Yet, I think my problem is probably related to the hardware? Does anyone have any suggestions or experience with this situation? Thank you.

Hi team,
Am a newbie in Linux, have a runing application using tail -f to see the ongoing logs, am having a challenge i want to see a specific file seen yesterday but its seems i can reach the line of the log but not the contents of the logs kindly help me out.

Thanks

hi linus guru,


Need your help, I would like to create ssh user that only has access to one folder

existing Directory: /home/aps/ logs



user can only have read only access on logs folder

Thanks, appreciate your help..

Hi All,
Can "CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core)" 64 bit be used for server to provide services such as web, ftp, mail etc. I meant to say whether it is stable and can be used for server. Because the previous versions was just as "CentOS release 5.10, CentOS release 6.2, CentOS release 6.4" and so on. Thanks for your kind reply.

Currently I'm using Windows 7 OS, in the same hardware I have RedHat ISO Image, is there any possibility to boot Linux ISO image directly from the same hardware?(not by using live CD,USB or any VM Workstation). I have 4 drives in my windows OS, I have ISO image in D: drive and E:drive I allocated for Linux, please try to help me out any one .....

Awaiting for your valuable Support........

Ten years on Linux and this has me stumped.
So I'm putting it in the Newbie thread.

I pulled an Nvidia card out of my box: I suspected a hardware failure with that.

The gear on the motherboard is Intel. An Intel driver is present, and it seems - judging from the logs - to be loading.

I commented out a lot of xorg.conf. There were things in there to help me get my resolution right.
Gone now, but I purged the Nvidia driver anyway.
( sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia )

But I have no GUI.
The login screen appears as expected, mouse and keyboard work.
But when I log into the GUI I get only wallpaper, no menus nor bars nor buttons, nor anything on a right-click.

FWIW I had been using Metacity until now, rather than the latest Gnome desktop.

A CD-bootable Ubuntu still works fine in this box tonight: that makes me suppose I have eliminated any hardware problems.

Any tips would be gratefully accepted.

I think I have seen advice suggesting that a person should just delete lots of desktop config files in a situation such as this. But to me that seems wrong - or maybe hasty.

So I thought I'd ask first.

Many thanks for any help.

hey there
And again, I got stuck in this problem.
I could not find honeyd logs in var/logs/honeypot/
there isnt any file.

I ran the honeyd with "honeyd -d -f honeyd.conf"
it works in terminal. but there arent any logs at all.

root@kali:/etc/honeypot# honeyd -d -f honeyd.conf
Honeyd V1.5c Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Niels Provos
honeyd[6952]: started with -d -f honeyd.conf
honeyd[6952]: listening promiscuously on eth0: (arp or ip proto 47 or (udp and src port 67 and dst port 68) or (ip )) and not ether src 98:4b:e1:94:62:46
honeyd[6952]: [eth0] trying DHCP
honeyd[6952]: Demoting process privileges to uid 65534, gid 65534
honeyd[6952]: [eth0] got DHCP offer: 192.168.23.3
honeyd[6952]: Updating ARP binding: 00:00:24:8b:83:c3 -> 192.168.23.3
honeyd[6952]: arp reply 192.168.23.3 is-at 00:00:24:8b:83:c3
honeyd[6952]: Sending ICMP Echo Reply: 192.168.23.3 -> 110.44.116.18

after some research, i came to know that i should include "-l" to create logs.
but it showed me only this.

root@kali:/etc/honeypot# honeyd -l -d -f honeyd.conf
Honeyd V1.5c Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Niels Provos
honeyd[6960]: started with -l -d -f honeyd.conf
honeyd[6960]: listening promiscuously on eth0: (arp or ip proto 47 or (udp and src port 67 and dst port 68) or (ip )) and not ether src 98:4b:e1:94:62:46
honeyd[6960]: [eth0] trying DHCP
Honeyd starting as background process
root@kali:/etc/honeypot#

so what could be the issue? Urgent help needed.
thanks in advance
P.S I am a linux newbie.

Working with CentOS 6.6. When logged on as root, sound works fine and 'Preferences -> Sound -> Hardware' shows the 'Internal SOund" device. When logged on as normal user, no sound and 'Preferences -> Sound -> Hardware' offeres no choices. What do I need to twiddle to enable sound for normal (i.e. non-root) users?

I need to send mails from our centos server, what are tools required ?

server
CentOS release 6.5 (Final)

How to check if sendmail is installed and configured?

I even tried mutt, I could install but not able to send mails. Is there any configuration required ?