#10075 NORM 12.1.0: long uptime with constant wakeups fills /var/log and crashes machine

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#10075: long uptime with constant wakeups fills /var/log and crashes machine
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           Reporter:  rsmith        |       Owner:  cjb          
               Type:  defect        |      Status:  new          
           Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  12.1.0       
          Component:  distro        |     Version:  not specified
         Resolution:                |    Keywords:               
        Next_action:  add to build  |    Verified:  0            
Deployment_affected:                |   Blockedby:               
           Blocking:                |  
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Changes (by dsd):

  * next_action:  diagnose => add to build
  * milestone:  1.5-software-later => 12.1.0


Comment:

 On 12.1.0, I can't see any redundant X server logging. Well, there are a
 handful of messages logged both to Xorg.0.log and olpc-dm-X.error.log, but
 only a few that are logged at X startup.

 logrotate is installed but disabled (same as 11.2.x), but the
 /var/log/messages file size can be easily capped by rsyslog and a helper
 script:

 As of olpc-utils 550628b85fc4dd0f0eb41670ca2821d20970f599 and olpc-os-
 builder 28413456e831cacfa285154aa95f3b91746e001c, once /var/log/messages
 hits 1MB it will be renamed to /var/log/messages.1 and /var/log/messages
 will be re-started as blank. This means the total "messages" content that
 will be stored at any time is 2mb.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10075#comment:9>
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