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by warrenm 2102 days ago
>I've never seen this issue on any systems I manage, mostly because they all have log rotation.

Ah, yes - the age-old claim that log rotation will magically stop a belligerent from dumping 100s of gigs of log files before `logrotate` has time to run ... filling up your disk

And even if logrotate did try to run, you have no space for the compressing file to live while it's being made

What fantasy world do you live in?

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a system that grinds to a halt because of overflowing logfiles is already faulty.

What fantasy world do you live in?