If its just the size of the file that's a problem can you possibly just quota the log file's size?<br><br><a href="http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-manage-log-file-size-archive-deletion.html" target="_blank">Manage Log File size on Ubuntu</a> is one writeup which gives a lot of detail on how to use LogRotate.<br>
<br>I think this is the <a href="http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html" target="_blank">Man page for LogRotate</a>.<br><br>If you are just trying to figure out how to reduce the number of messages the above won't help.<br>
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3. Re: auth.log growing... (John A. Sullivan III)<br>
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:45:39 +0200<br>
From: Mike Gabriel <<a href="mailto:m.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de">m.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:alexander.croessmann@gmail.com">alexander.croessmann@gmail.com</a><br>
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Subject: Re: [X2go-dev] x2go-home<br>
Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:20100816214539.16496cdfj6w0pr37@mail.das-netzwerkteam.de">20100816214539.16496cdfj6w0pr37@mail.das-netzwerkteam.de</a>><br>
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Hi Alex,<br>
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On Mo 16 Aug 2010 14:57:36 CEST Alexander Cr?ssmann wrote:<br>
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> Hi Mike,<br>
><br>
> my problem is solved. As I wrote in my first mail, I tired to connect<br>
> from the localhost to the localhost which did not work.<br>
><br>
> However, I have two more questions:<br>
> - Is there a way to install the windows client without admin<br>
> privileges? The browser plugin?<br>
<br>
x2goclient: I suppose no...<br>
x2goplugin: should be possible (like any other ff plugin)<br>
<br>
> - Is there a way to run the server admin GUI on gnome? I get the<br>
> message that kcontrol is missing. Although kdebase is installed.<br>
<br>
since kde4 there is no more debian/ubuntu package called kcontrol. The<br>
replacement of kcontrol in kde4 is called systemsettings (name of the<br>
.deb package).<br>
<br>
I am not sure enough if the admin GUIs will plug into systemsettings<br>
in the same way as they do with kcontrol. If so, the developers might<br>
provide a package update with the respective dependencies.<br>
<br>
For you a work-around could be to provide a dummy kcontrol package<br>
with equivs-build (check equivs package on Ubuntu/Debian), just to<br>
satisfy dependencies in the x2go packages. However, this is untested...<br>
<br>
> Alex<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Mike<br>
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Message: 2<br>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:55:31 +0200<br>
From: Mike Gabriel <<a href="mailto:m.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de">m.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de">x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de</a><br>
Subject: Re: [X2go-dev] auth.log growing...<br>
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Hi Paul,<br>
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on Tue May 26 11:40:43 CEST 2009 you had this request to the x2go-dev list:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
><br>
> After installing X2go I see my auth.log is growing.<br>
> I see this:<br>
> ---------<br>
> May 25 06:53:22 server sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root<br>
> ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot server<br>
> May 25 06:53:22 server su[17628]: Successful su for postgres by root<br>
> May 25 06:53:22 server su[17628]: + ??? root:postgres<br>
> May 25 06:53:22 server su[17628]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened<br>
> for user postgres by (uid=0)<br>
> May 25 06:53:22 server su[17628]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed<br>
> for user postgres<br>
> May 25 06:53:23 server CRON[16311]: pam_unix(cron:session): session<br>
> closed for user root<br>
> May 25 06:53:28 server sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root<br>
> ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot server<br>
> (...)<br>
> -------<br>
><br>
> I did a "/etc/init.d/x2goserver stop" and that helps.<br>
> And I can still login on the X2go server!<br>
><br>
> I see it is checking the database, but I don't understand why exactly.<br>
> Is it really necessary to do this every 5 seconds?<br>
> ---------<br>
> echo "select agent_pid, session_id, display, server, status,\<br>
> to_char(init_time,'DD.MM.YY*HH24:MI:SS'),cookie,client,gr_port,\<br>
> sound_port,to_char(last_time,'DD.MM.YY*HH24:MI:SS'),uname,\<br>
> to_char(now()-init_time,'SSSS'),fs_port from sessions \<br>
> where server='$2' order by status desc;"|psql -t x2go_sessions<br>
> ;;<br>
> -----------<br>
><br>
> I saw you can change the sleep-time (5 seconds) in this script:<br>
> /usr/sbin/x2gocleansessions<br>
> but I am not sure this is a good idea...<br>
><br>
> With regards.<br>
> Paul van der Vlis.<br>
<br>
have you already found a solution to this??? I experience the same<br>
issue tried to look for a sudo hack to silence log file output but was<br>
not successful...<br>
<br>
Any ideas on this?<br>
Greets,<br>
Mike<br>
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Message: 3<br>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:08:41 -0400<br>
From: "John A. Sullivan III" <<a href="mailto:jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com">jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de">x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de</a><br>
Subject: Re: [X2go-dev] auth.log growing...<br>
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On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 22:55 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:<br>
> Hi Paul,<br>
><br>
> on Tue May 26 11:40:43 CEST 2009 you had this request to the x2go-dev list:<br>
><br>
> > Hello,<br>
> ><br>
> > After installing X2go I see my auth.log is growing.<br>
> > I see this:<br>
> > ---------<br>
> > May 25 06:53:22 server sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root<br>
> > ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot server<br>
> > May 25 06:53:22 server su[17628]: Successful su for postgres by root<br>
> > May 25 06:53:22 server su[17628]: + ??? root:postgres<br>
> > May 25 06:53:22 server su[17628]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened<br>
> > for user postgres by (uid=0)<br>
> > May 25 06:53:22 server su[17628]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed<br>
> > for user postgres<br>
> > May 25 06:53:23 server CRON[16311]: pam_unix(cron:session): session<br>
> > closed for user root<br>
> > May 25 06:53:28 server sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root<br>
> > ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot server<br>
> > (...)<br>
> > -------<br>
> ><br>
> > I did a "/etc/init.d/x2goserver stop" and that helps.<br>
> > And I can still login on the X2go server!<br>
The x2goserver daemon isn't actually the server; it starts the<br>
x2gocleansessions daemon which cleans up after sessions in various<br>
states every five seconds as you note below. The actual connections to<br>
the server are all driven from the client via ssh by calling various<br>
scripts on the server.<br>
> ><br>
> > I see it is checking the database, but I don't understand why exactly.<br>
> > Is it really necessary to do this every 5 seconds?<br>
> > ---------<br>
> > echo "select agent_pid, session_id, display, server, status,\<br>
> > to_char(init_time,'DD.MM.YY*HH24:MI:SS'),cookie,client,gr_port,\<br>
> > sound_port,to_char(last_time,'DD.MM.YY*HH24:MI:SS'),uname,\<br>
> > to_char(now()-init_time,'SSSS'),fs_port from sessions \<br>
> > where server='$2' order by status desc;"|psql -t x2go_sessions<br>
> > ;;<br>
> > -----------<br>
> ><br>
> > I saw you can change the sleep-time (5 seconds) in this script:<br>
> > /usr/sbin/x2gocleansessions<br>
> > but I am not sure this is a good idea...<br>
I posted a description of what the various parts of X2Go do to the list<br>
a while ago. It included a discussion of the session cleanup process if<br>
you would find that helpful.<br>
> ><br>
> > With regards.<br>
> > Paul van der Vlis.<br>
><br>
> have you already found a solution to this??? I experience the same<br>
> issue tried to look for a sudo hack to silence log file output but was<br>
> not successful...<br>
><br>
> Any ideas on this?<br>
> Greets,<br>
> Mike<br>
><br>
><br>
We did not find a way to silence the logs and, in our case, it was even<br>
worse because we were doing LDAP lookups every five seconds for the<br>
postgres user. However, we did consolidate to a single, centralized<br>
database for all X2Go Servers. We also created a single cleanup daemon<br>
to clean up all X2Go Servers so that we didn't have hundreds of daemons<br>
all running every five seconds. We had the advantage that our X2Go<br>
Servers were built on VServers to the cleanup up script has direct<br>
access to the file systems on all the X2Go Servers. The routine could<br>
probably be easily hacked to provide the same access via SSH and use a<br>
single cleanup daemon. I posted the patches and documentation a while<br>
ago.<br>
<br>
I have some more changes to post which refine it but have not had the<br>
time to document and post them. If someone does have the time, the<br>
patches should really be rewritten to be configurable options. As I<br>
posted them, they are a rip and replace patch - almost more of a fork<br>
which is the last thing on Earth I want to do . . . well . . . almost<br>
the last thing ;-) - John<br>
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