I am running OS X 10.5.8 on my imac. Not too sure when the problem started but i noticed it a couple of weeks ago when I had a message indicating "my start-up disk was full". I did some digging and saw that my 300 GB hard drive was full. I do not have that many items on the system so I downloaded a "what size" program to check where the largest files were and found that there was 160GB in a /private/var/log/sys file.
I did some more digging and found that this could be fixed by deleting these files in Terminal doing it this way:
Restart log managers after removing asl data Open the Terminal application and enter the following two commands to stop the log managers:
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.syslogd
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.aslmanager
Then create a folder on your desktop called "temp" (to store the moved "data store" files), and enter the following command in the Terminal to move the "ASL" data to the new temporary folder:
sudo mv /var/log/asl/* ~/Desktop/temp/
Finally, restart the "syslogd" process with the following command (the aslmanager will be started when needed by syslogd, so it doesnt need to be manually restarted):
sudo launchctl start com.apple.syslogd
This worked for about 100GB of the data; however the issue continues to re-occur and fills up the hard drive within a few days again.
I have tried to go in and repeat the process above but now Terminal is giving me this message:
Broadcast Message from [email protected]
(no tty) at 7:44 PST...
Feb 26 07:44:24 jerry-bottis-imac-6 kernel[0]:
over and over again.
I need some help here folks - any ideas???
Jerryb
I did some more digging and found that this could be fixed by deleting these files in Terminal doing it this way:
Restart log managers after removing asl data Open the Terminal application and enter the following two commands to stop the log managers:
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.syslogd
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.aslmanager
Then create a folder on your desktop called "temp" (to store the moved "data store" files), and enter the following command in the Terminal to move the "ASL" data to the new temporary folder:
sudo mv /var/log/asl/* ~/Desktop/temp/
Finally, restart the "syslogd" process with the following command (the aslmanager will be started when needed by syslogd, so it doesnt need to be manually restarted):
sudo launchctl start com.apple.syslogd
This worked for about 100GB of the data; however the issue continues to re-occur and fills up the hard drive within a few days again.
I have tried to go in and repeat the process above but now Terminal is giving me this message:
Broadcast Message from [email protected]
(no tty) at 7:44 PST...
Feb 26 07:44:24 jerry-bottis-imac-6 kernel[0]:
over and over again.
I need some help here folks - any ideas???
Jerryb