Out of control Log files

As the title states, I was rummaging through /var/log on my laptop, and found that one of my old acpid log files was 2GB!!

It appears that the acpid log file gets written to about 30 times a second.

Not to mention that my messages log file is almost the exact same, apart from the fact that it has not run away with the size.

I am sure that logrotate is controlling the logs, I checked the logrotate conf file.

Here's a snippet of acpid:

Code:

[Sat Sep 9 13:22:05 2006] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES [Sat Sep 9 13:22:05 2006] END HANDLER MESSAGES [Sat Sep 9 13:22:05 2006] action exited with status 0 [Sat Sep 9 13:22:05 2006] completed event "processor CPU0 00000080 00000000" [Sat Sep 9 13:22:05 2006] received event "processor CPU0 00000080 00000000" [Sat Sep 9 13:22:05 2006] notifying client 6959[102:1002] [Sat Sep 9 13:22:05 2006] notifying client 7900[0:0] [Sat Sep 9 13:22:05 2006] executing action "/etc/acpi/default.sh processor CPU0 00000080 00000000" [Sat Sep 9 13:22:05 2006] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES

and Messages:

Code:

Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000 Sep 9 13:22:19 trinity logger: ACPI event unhandled: processor CPU0 00000080 00000000

This is not very cool.

Please help, I fear that this will run away with my disk space.

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