Patrick Erler said at �[expert] strange logfiles�. [2000-10-04 16:12] > hello MANDRAKE! > > i have such a lot of logfiles in /var/log/mail like > > mail.err.1.gz.1.gz~gz.1.gz.2.gz.2.gz... (goes on for some time) > > that i can't even do a rm * (argument too long) > > where the hell are they coming from? > They are old logs renamed and compressed by the 'logrotate' package. You can delete them all (everything ending in .gz), and grab the latest logrotate from cooker. The /var/log directory seems to have changed a lot in latest versions... A suggestion: by the high number of .1.gz's in your files, I guess you have been accumulating logs for a long time. I suffered from that also, and the bad thing is that when you have 10k files in a directory and remove them, the directory file itself is still VERY big, so I would try to get all the dirs under /var/log, for example mail, remove all inside it and ls -l it. If it is too big (it's an empty dir), remove the dir and recreate it. Good luck.
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