Your
understanding is correct. This is taken care of monthly on the
system. It keeps the size of your current messages file at a workable size
and does the safe thing of archiving the old one in case you still need to
peruse it. I'm not sure if the highest numerical suffix is you most
current or the lowest. A simple 'more messages.x' should tell you
soon enough.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimization: The speed of a
nonworking program is irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++
Programming')
-----Original Message-----Hi again.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frederic PLE
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 4:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] log file : /var/log/messagesI would like to know why sometimes I have new files in /var/log called messages.1 messages.2 etc ?
Should I understand that regularly the system makes a backup called messages.x and reset the messages file ?
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