Company: Bloomberg | Difficulty: Easy
The /var/log/messages file has been growing unusually fast, filling up disk space within hours.
Identify the process that is writing heavily to /var/log/messages by monitoring system activity in real time. Save the process details using ps and last 50 lines of logs at /home/devops/excessive_log_process.txt
# Before (log file growing rapidly)
/var/log/messages: 15 GB and increasing
Disk usage: 92% and climbing
# After (responsible process identified)
Process identified: rsyslogd (PID 1234)
Confirmed active writes to /var/log/messages