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> I've detected a /var/log that grows so huge in 24 hours that I
> have to delete it to get any work done. I guess I should have given /var a
> separate partition, but that wouldn't fix WHY is this so huge? I know
> nobody can't say this over email, but can someone tell me where to get
> started in reading the logs? I can't read a 4GB log, I need to grep for
> something.
how about tail -f /var/log/whichever-log-it-is? That'll show the last few
lines.
You could then maybe post at least that much here for us to try and analyze.
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