Re: [SLUG] wtmp Filling with connections

From: Mike Branda (realraccoon@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat May 07 2005 - 22:37:09 EDT


On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 21:01 +0000, Chad Sine wrote:
> Sluggers + Mike Branda,
>
> I came across the same basic thing. This solution would remedy the hard
> drive filling problem, but will not fix the problem. I wonder if the part
> of the kernel that handles the creation of the tty's themselves is borked.

Chad,

I don't think so. I'm more inclined to think it's agetty. I would
focus my research around google keywords like "agetty wtmp utmp fill" or
variations thereof. If what Kwan said has any weight, you might try
playing with the baud or flag options (man agetty) where agetty is
called. In my system it looks like (if I used it) it would
be /etc/inittab??

mbranda@Laptop:~> cat /etc/inittab | grep agetty
#S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0 vt102

does /var/log/messages or /var/log/warn show any clues??

Again, I'll look some more tomorrow. I know that doesn't help you in
the here and now but you should try the logrotate thing. It'll buy some
time and once you fix the problem it's not hard to pull the logrotate.

Mike Branda Jr.

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