unca_NAS
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- Joined
- Mar 25, 2012
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Got this message and was a bit puzzled at first what was the cause (occurred at 2 AM)
Somewhat lot of reading and some searching showed that file /var/log/security was humongous in size. Deleting it solved the problem temporarily, but when restarting the syslogd it was recreated and started to grow... fast.
Opening the huge file indicated the reason - it was full of ipfw (firewall) data. I have Transmission running with openVPN in the same jail. Disabled the ipfw logging for now - problem solved.
Consulting the FreeBSD-notebook was beneficial. Writing this in case of someone has the same problem... fwiw :)
Somewhat lot of reading and some searching showed that file /var/log/security was humongous in size. Deleting it solved the problem temporarily, but when restarting the syslogd it was recreated and started to grow... fast.
Opening the huge file indicated the reason - it was full of ipfw (firewall) data. I have Transmission running with openVPN in the same jail. Disabled the ipfw logging for now - problem solved.
Consulting the FreeBSD-notebook was beneficial. Writing this in case of someone has the same problem... fwiw :)