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List:       linux-router
Subject:    Re: Follow-up - RE: [LRP] Eigerstein?BETA pre-release
From:       Ewald Wasscher <ewald.wasscher () pobox ! com>
Date:       2001-05-28 23:12:31
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Dan Kegel wrote:

>Victor McAllister wrote:
>
>>Throw it away.  root is tricky to backup if you do not have enough RAM.  On the
>>infrequent times that I back up root - I always check its size before and after
>>- to make sure it is not corrupt.  If it is - free up some memory
>>
>>>/var/log/messages
>>>/var/log/syslog
>>>
>>and try again BEFORE rebooting....
>>
>
>Yeah.  I have to clear out /var/log/*.0 before backing up any module
>at all; I have so many martian packets being logged that the filesystem
>fills up, and there's not enough room to write the new package to /tmp.
>
Charles' extended scripts have a SILENT_DENY option in /etc/network.conf 
to deny such packets without logging them.

Ewald Wasscher


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