10GB /var/log/messages.log

[Alphazo]

I use syslog-ng. This happened to me again today (very annoying). I really
don't know what to do.

Alphazo

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Philipp Schafft <lion at lion.leolix.org>wrote:

> reflum,
>
> On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 13:55 +0100, Alphazo wrote:
> > Yesterday, after signing one message using my CryptoStick (OpenPGP
> > card V2 + USB reader) I filled up my /var/log/messages.log with 10GB
> > (that's a lot) of the same exact message:
> >
> >
> > Nov 20 21:15:00 localhost pcscd: ccid_usb.c:613:WriteUSB() write
> > failed (2/3): -9 Success
>
> I don't know much about pcscd, but maybe there is a loop which should
> get a error counter.
>
> did restarting the process help?
>
>
> > In fact it was only 10GB because I didn't have any more space left on
> > this partition. I also had /var/log/everything.log
> > and /var/log/user.log with the same content.
> >
> >
> > The line just before was:
> > Nov 20 21:13:12 localhost kernel: usb 2-1.2: new full speed USB device
> > using ehci_hcd and address 3
> >
> >
> > The only thing I remember is that I probably have removed the drive at
> > some point.
>
> Do you use rsyslogd?
>
> --
> Philipp.
>  (Rah of PH2)
>
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