86 gigs of files in /var/log/asl

[jyung]

Hello,

Has anyone had the /var/log/asl filled up will errors?
They are all range in size from 24k to 12gig.

Is it all right to delete these errors?
What causes them?

Thanks,

Jon

[pbachuwa]

I had that before with Tiger Server, SQL was creating huge files. I
just deleted them, it will keep happening though.

Patrick Bachuwa

Client Technical Services

Sears Holdings Corporation

Michigan Campus

3000 W. 14 Mile Road

P.O. Box 8073

Royal Oak, MI. 48068-8073

Phone: 248 637-0350

[winkelhe]

syslog /var/log/asl/<pick one>

that'll print the log to stdout. then see what's recurring and that should give you an idea of your issue.

eric winkelhake
mundocomww
office 312 220 1669
cell 312 504 5155

[jyung]

Thanks Eric

The log file is a created by Virex because I had the old 8.7 installed and
the new McAfee Ver 9 were installed.

Version 8.7 was trying to scan.

Thanks all

Jon

[winkelhe]

do yourself a favor, trash that and go clamav.

eric winkelhake
mundocomww
office 312 220 1669
cell 312 504 5155

[#6]

I second that. We used to run McAfee on all our Macs at one point. With
every engine release they got slower and slower. Switched to Clam and
it's like they are new all over again. What a difference it made.

[#7]

I second THAT!

clamxav is what we're running. I couldn't deal with the sluggishness of
Office 2008 from VirusScan 8.6... and the login time was horrific.

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LAUREN NICHOLAS
User Support Analyst - Hurd Campus

Center for Information Technology - CIT

Moravian College
ph. 610 861 1633
lpnicholas at moravian.edu

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