Re: [webmin-l] bandwidth monitoring can overload server

[Patrick E. <mai...@pa...>]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:30:03 +0200, Kris Deugau <kd...@vi...> wrote:

> Patrick Erler wrote:
>> config (DEBIAN 3.0/DEBIAN 3.1):
>>
>> bandwidth monitoring using shorewall
>> logrotate enabled
>> logcheck enabled
>>
>> bandwith monitoring rules are logging to syslog. in my case it filled
>>
>> /var/log/bandwidth
>> /var/log/debug (why this?)
>> /var/log/syslog
>
> Part of your problem is Debian's default syslog configuration - it logs
> **EVERYTHING** (very VERY literally!) to several places.  I've yet to
> figure out how this is useful, good, or desireable.
>
right, but i have the feeling that this is somehow a good thing (TM). at  
least it fits my own feelings about handling data. storage space is cheap,  
so i myself tend to rather save something twice instead of missing data  
later i deleted because i thought it's not important at that time (think  
cracks, think "what's happend to the mail i definitely got, you bastard  
operator from hell!")

on the other hand i like to keep my servers as distro-standard as possible  
and it's possible that this is not the way it is intended in debian. your  
opinion?
>
> (I won't go into my opinions on Debian's default log rotation system.)
could you tell?

PAT