On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:32:54PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:04 pm, Thorsten Haude wrote: > > My advice: If you have to ask, don't try it at all. Logging ist an > > important base functionality and shouldn't be given up without knowing > > what you might be up against. > > Agreed. The best solution for the OP would be to just configure logrotate > to rotate everything daily, and only keep one or two backlogs. > > That would keep the log files from piling up, but would keep logging > around for the times when it's needed. >
That would probably do something closer to what the OP wanted probably since there are a few other programs that keep their looks in /var/log so killing syslog and klog only does part of the job. Also some other services are lost when removing logs. There are system checkups database updates (updatedb) etc. > Adam > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
