On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:33:15AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:51:14PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > i was wondering if there are any other redundant log files etc that i > > can delete to make more space available. i for instance know that exim > > keeps a log and it can be safely deleted. any other files? > > Install deborphan and run it every once in a while. Every few months > it probably doesn't hurt to have it scrap the keeper file. This will > trim the fat among debian packages.
oh sure. i am already doing that. > On my system at least, /usr/src occasionally bloats to ungodly > proportions if I've been doing a lot of stuff by hand. i do not do any programming. /usr/src is empty! or compilation, etc. > /usr/local/ will get up there, too, if you install commercial software > (like games from id Software or Loki Linux Entertainment[1]). i do not do this either. :) > If /var/log is building up larger than you are comfortable with, check > out the logrotate documentation to automate trimming things down a bit > more. sure. i will do this. i had been manually trimming my logfiles so far. -- regards, sandip p deshmukh ------***-------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
