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I took over a Fedora server where the /var/log folder keeps growing to over 100gb of data and some of the logs are old. I think some of them are logs being sent from our Firewall but how do I determine where all the messages are coming from?

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Generally speaking, 100gb of logs in /var/log indicates that logrotate was either not implemented or misconfigured or broken for some reason. Logs in /var/log are subject to policies defined in configuration of logrotate. I would first look whether it is installed (it should be by default on many distros) and how exactly configured in configuration file - most commonly /etc/logrotate.conf.

Second problem is generation of so many log data. If firewall / iptables-netfilter is suspected search for --log-prefix in output of iptables -L -n. Take action accordingly.

Your problem may be long time present but never escalated, speaking from my personal experience.

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