Bug 51489 – Foldingathome logfile fills up hard-disk

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Glen Vermeylen 2004-05-19 10:45:21 UTC]

The logfile, created by 

nice -n 20 su foldingathome -c "/opt/foldingathome/client${CPU}/foldingathome ${FOLD_OPTS}" 2>&1 >/opt/foldingathome/log-${CPU} &

in /etc/init.d/foldingathome (function start() )
Created a file log-1 of > 6GB (harddisk full)

I just redirected 2>&1> to /dev/null

[Comment 1 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-05-27 05:31:07 UTC]

Can you tell me what was written in this logfile? It's not supposed to grow that fast.

[Comment 2 Glen Vermeylen 2004-05-27 06:58:12 UTC]

No :/.
Stupid mistake of me was to delete the log instantly when I found the cause of my full hd: I edited the /etc/init.d/foldingathome, but didn't drop the 'rm /opt/folding..../LOG{$CPU}' (I'm typing this out of memory under windows, so can't look it up). => next reboot: logfile gone :/.
And th

[Comment 3 Glen Vermeylen 2004-05-27 06:58:12 UTC]

No :/.
Stupid mistake of me was to delete the log instantly when I found the cause of my full hd: I edited the /etc/init.d/foldingathome, but didn't drop the 'rm /opt/folding..../LOG{$CPU}' (I'm typing this out of memory under windows, so can't look it up). => next reboot: logfile gone :/.
And thén I thought about a bugreport.

But foldingathome already creates its own logfile, so I perhaps it isn't necessary to create another?

[Comment 4 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-06-07 00:34:44 UTC]

Fixing in -r2, thanks.