I asked:
I am running DU v4.0.
I have a file: /var/join/log which grows at an incredible rate.
# wc log
30124 158845 1658997 log
in only four days! It gets about 1250 entries per day!
Thanks to:
Bertrand Hutin
Gyula Szokoly
Kai Grunau
Gernot Salzer
Gyula suggested turning off joind, but I believe that I need it to
boot X-terminals and a PrintServer.
Gyula and Gernot suggested checking the -d and -l options for joind
in /etc/inetd.conf and indeed -d1 was set. Removing this and sending
kill -HUP to the inetd process did not solve the problem.
Gernot wrote:
Another reason might be that there are devices on the net with a subnet mask
which is too general and therefore allows to broadcast their bootp-requests to
too many hosts including yours. I had a case where some printer sent a
bootp-request every few seconds to the whole net, each time waking up the
bootp daemon, who wrote a few lines to the log file saying that he was not
responsible for this device.
I believe that this is the problem, but I still don't know what I can do
about it.
Peter Stern
Chemical Physics Department
Weizmann Institute of Science
76100 Rehovot, ISRAEL
email: peter_at_wiscpa.weizmann.ac.il
phone: 972-8-9342096
fax: 972-8-9344123
Received on Mon Mar 10 1997 - 17:38:32 NZDT