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- From: dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: my own suggestion: compress error logs...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.183110.6528@novell.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:31:10 GMT
- References: <jon.van.oast.23.0@med.umich.edu>
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- In article <jon.van.oast.23.0@med.umich.edu> jon.van.oast@med.umich.edu (UWI001) writes:
- >this is a rather trivial point, but i thought i would bring it up while
- >netware 4.0 was still in beta test and this MIGHT be able to get
- >"sneaked" into the grand program (hint hint, novell!).
- >
- >today, the sys: volume on one of our servers ran out of space. no big
- >deal, but for a few minutes all the users couldnt print, etc. turns out
- >the error log file was 14 MEGABYTES large! granted, we know now to be
- >fairly liberal with our space given to the sys: volume, but we didnt know
- >that back when we gen'ed this server. anyway, i zipped away the error
- >log file (being the anal-retentive type i am), then cleared it. the 14
- >meg free got things back on track.
- >
- >now, the amazing thing is that when i zipped the file, it save 92% !!!!
- >of the space. it ended up just over 1 Mb in size. so, my two cents worth
- >of suggestion for future reference is that maybe the error log be stored
- >in a compressed format -- after all, when you have EVERY little activity
- >being logged to it (like all the ATPS stuff) it can grow PRETTY fast!
- >
- >yeah, we should check and clear our error log regularily. yeah, we should
- >give at least X meg to sys: volumes. yeah, we should . . . but we have
- >10 servers and people forget and this was old. and, the point is, it
- >happened, as things will.
- >
- >just a thought... thanks for your time&trouble! -jon
-
- Hi,
-
- Actually we have a mechanism that allows you to turn those error messages off
- (as far as AppleTalk is concerned). At the server, you can LOAD ATCON -L and
- you will get an extra menu labled LOGGING BITS. In this section you can set
- which messages get put into your error log. You will have to make some
- decisions when using this feature as you will be losing an informational
- resource when you turn off the error messages. But the feature is useful. Give
- it a try.
-
- Hope this helps...
-
- Think Peace...
-
- Dan Seeman
- Novell
- Walnut Creek, Ca.
-