24Gig Console.log!!!

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24Gig Console.log!!!

Hey Up.

This is just curiosity, but suddenly this morning, up comes the message that my sys HD is very nearly full.

Now I know I've not filled it, so what's going on?

I search for files over 1 gig and up comes /Library/Logs/console/501/console.log.1 at 24.03GB.

I tried opening it with Console but it hung, so I just trashed it and all's well (so far!!??...)

Has this happened to any of you guys??

I was on line over-night btw...

Cheers,
bretski

G4 Powerbook 12" 1.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

G4 Powerbook 12" 1.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Posted on Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM

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Answer 1

a brody

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Mar 1, 2006 12:03 PM in response to bretski

Do you have an iShock whose drivers haven't been updated?

When you leave your machine on overnight, do you set it for screen saver or energy saver?

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Answer 2

Mar 1, 2006 12:07 PM in response to bretski

This is probably a maintenance issue, or a lack of maintenance issue. Log files can get huge if not allowed to rotate and be removed by the system. I don't mean to criticize. 🙂

You may wish to read through the following FAQ to get a handle on the small amount of maintenance that OS X does require.

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintainingmacosx.html

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bretski Author

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Mar 2, 2006 10:33 AM in response to Al Van Malsen

Greetings from London.

Thanks for the feedback chaps.

Don't know about the iShock issue, can you give me more info? like how to access?

Energy settings are: cpu, no sleep. Display, 15 mins.

Al Van. I've checked the site you pasted, very helpful, but do these maintainance scripts just work on the var.log, not the console.log, or are they the same thing?

I do, however run Macjanitor once a week, so this log file I'm talking about must've filled up real quick!! 24 Gig!!!

As I say, no damage done, I just love my Mac and always want to learn more, thats why I appreciate all the Discussion people.

Big love
Bl-s

G4 Powerbook 12" 1.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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Answer 4

a brody

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Mar 2, 2006 10:44 AM in response to bretski

MacAlly makes an input device called an iShock. If you didn't purchase an iShock, the issue regarding it does not affect you. If you did purchase an iShock, visit http://www.macally.com/ and go to their support page for an update.

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