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Hi LINUX.X gurus,

My xdm-errors file is filling up with the same line over and over.  It
will eventually fill my / file system.  If I delete  it xdm will die (I
believe because xdm then will have a stale file descriptor).  After a
reboot things will work fine until the next time.

The repeating line is:

xdm-errors:xdm error (pid 82): Cannot convert Internet address
206.3.249.48 to host name

pid 82 is xdm

206.3.249.48 is not in my /etc/hosts file or any other config file I've
looked at so far.  We do have a machine on my LAN with that address
though.

I'm gonna try putting an entry in my /etc/hosts file for that machine
but If that works (i.e. keeps xdm from freeking out) why should I have
to do that?

...

Well its been 5 minutes or so and xdm-errors seems to of stopped
growing.

Were do I look to find out the origin of this error?

Also, how does one do maintainence (i.e. remove/truncate) on log files
like xdm-errors without killing xdm?  Or is that just life?

Puzzled,
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Quote:>Also, how does one do maintainence (i.e. remove/truncate) on log files
>like xdm-errors without killing xdm?  Or is that just life?

I don't know whether this will work for xdm-errors.

Quote:>Hi LINUX.X gurus,

>My xdm-errors file is filling up with the same line over and over.  It
>will eventually fill my / file system.  If I delete  it xdm will die (I
>believe because xdm then will have a stale file descriptor).  After a
>reboot things will work fine until the next time.

>The repeating line is:

>xdm-errors:xdm error (pid 82): Cannot convert Internet address
>206.3.249.48 to host name

30 15 * * * /sbin/logroll /var/log/debug

(or whatever log file(s) you need to truncate)

Hope this helps
...Roger
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#!/bin/sh
#
# usage: logroll [ -d <save directory> ] [ -s <size> ] <logfile>

# where to save old log files
SAVE_DIR=/var/log/roll

# how large should we allow files to grow before rolling them
SIZE=256k

while :
do
        case $1 in
        -d)
                SAVE_DIR=$2
                shift; shift;;

        -s)
                SIZE=$2
                shift;shift;;
        -h|-?)
                echo  "usage: logroll [ -d <save directory> ] [ -s <size> ] <logfile>"
                exit;;

        *)
                break;;
        esac
done

if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
        echo  "usage: logroll [ -d <save directory> ] [ -s <size> ] <logfile>"
        exit 1
fi

if [ -z `find $1 -size +$SIZE -print` ]
then
        exit 0
fi

file=`basename $1`
if [ -f $SAVE_DIR/$file.gz ]
then
        /bin/mv $SAVE_DIR/$file.gz $SAVE_DIR/$file.old.gz
fi

/bin/mv $1 $SAVE_DIR/$file
/bin/gzip -f $SAVE_DIR/$file
# this last command assumes the PID of syslogd is stored like RedHat
# if this is not the case, "killall -HUP syslogd" should work
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`

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ln -s /dev/null xdm-errors

Works well on my .xsession-errors file !