kern.log bandwidth and syslog filling up with bandwidth lines

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kern.log bandwidth and syslog filling up with bandwidth lines
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you have something that running that logs into syslog, if that logging is not needed, you should either disable it or maybe write into a separate file and rotate that instead.

I think it’s Shorewall that does that, so look into there to disable logging
Shorewall FAQs

by alexus from http://serverfault.com/questions/380871