[CentOS] Xorg fills up /var/log/Xorg.0.log with AUDIT messages (up to system crash) [solved]
Frank Cox
theatre at melvilletheatre.com
Fri Oct 4 17:12:03 UTC 2013
On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:48:01 +0200
Frank Thommen wrote:
> Problem solved: A user had configured his "preferred browser" to be
> Thunderbird(!). As soon as he clicked on a link in an email, he ended
> in an endless loop with TB trying to open the link with the "preferred
> browser" (aka itself) again and again. This resulted in 40 MB audit
> loglines/hour in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
That sounds like something that should be reported to the Thunderbird people.
It probably wouldn't be too difficult for them to make Thunderbird an invalid
selection under that setting.
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