Re: {bb} Message File Problems

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 23:19, King, Michael wrote:
> So we had a machine run out of disk space today.  We cleaned up the
> rampant process, and freed up the disk.
> 
> I install Big brother Client on the machine (Debian Sarge)
> 
> All the checks are reporting green, except for the message file.
> 
> That is displaying this way
> 
> 
> resnet1.reshall.bridgew.edu - msgs
> yellow Thu Feb 16 18:18:07 EST 2006 Message file problems reported
> 
> 
> yellow /var/log/messages (scanned at Thu Feb 16 18:18:07 EST 2006)
> Binary file (standard input) matches
> 
> yellow /var/log/messages (scanned at Thu Feb 16 18:13:06 EST 2006)
> Binary file (standard input) matches
> 
> yellow /var/log/messages (scanned at Thu Feb 16 18:08:22 EST 2006)
> Binary file (standard input) matches
> 
> yellow /var/log/messages (scanned at Thu Feb 16 18:03:23 EST 2006)
> Binary file (standard input) matches
> 
> yellow /var/log/messages (scanned at Thu Feb 16 17:58:22 EST 2006)
> Binary file (standard input) matches
> 
> 
> Any idea on how to fix this?

It looks like "grep" is seeing /var/log/messages as a binary file.
I'd start by rotating it to see if something is still writing
binary data into it, otherwise it might just be a feature of the
disk filling up. If the file was manually truncated while there
was still and open filehandle, it can create a "hole" (block of
NULL bytes).

If it persists, I'd try loading the file in "vi" to see if you can
spot where the problem data is coming from. Another thing that is
probably worth trying is to stop the client and manually clear out
any temporary files from BBTMP before restarting.

Cheers, Phil.



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