topic Re: The log file in the /home/admin directory is unusually high in Network Security

The log file in the /home/admin directory is unusually high

NguyenNgocBa — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 04:46:19 GMT

In the morning my system was warned that the drive was about to be full, after looking for the cause I found that there was a rather large file that took up 64Gb, I tried for the system not to take any log in and out. of the system user but it doesn't seem to work and I noticed that file is getting bigger every second
, I tried using the command pmtool restart diskmanager but the above file still shows no sign of reducing
I really want to know what that file is used for in the system, can anyone help me?

Re: The log file in the /home/admin directory is unusually high

Milos_Jovanovic — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 07:58:16 GMT

Hi @NguyenNgocBa,

I never faced this issue, but googling a bit, I found this post. Based on this post, I could conclude either you had a troubleshooting session at some point, which caused this file to grow this large (maybe never canceled), or you are hitting some bug for it.

I would check if pigtail process is still running, if yes - kill it, and delete this file afterwards.

Kind regards,

Milos

Re: The log file in the /home/admin directory is unusually high

Marvin Rhoads — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:41:34 GMT

If it's continuing to grow, then pigtail is probably running in a session. Look for it with "pidof pigtail" and then kill the process ID (pid) that is returned using "kill <pid>. Once you do that you should be able to delete (remove) the file with "rm <filename>". All of these should be done as root user (i.e., "sudo su -" first).

It also appears you are running a quite old version and you should consider updating to a more current one.