[cobalt-users] Panic Logs too big with Dead.Letter - How & Can I delete them

[Scott F <scott_falco@xxxxxxxxx>]

>I need to know before the server goes tits up 
>how do I kill the logs and get them back to what 
>they were before portsentry started. 

First kill portsentry so it doesn't keep generating
log entries until you figure out what you're doing. If
you don't know how to turn off portsentry, just do a:

 ps aux

at command prompt and look for the two lines that show
portsentry running, they'll have pid numbers then
issue:

kill pid#1 pid#2

that'll kill off portsentry.

>Can I delete dead/letter 
>from /root. 

YES! you can delete this file with no ill side
effects. You can also zero log files that have become
too large by issuing the command:

cat > logfile  

(where logfile is the name of the log file)

THEN you must hit "control D" (Ctrl + D) to back out..
that will zero any log file that's grown out of
control.

Scott

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