On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Nguyen Hung.Takeshi wrote: > pesarif wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > My /var/log folder is getting fairly big (10 MB) and its growing quickly > > (this computer has only 660MB for Linux :( ). > > > > My question is: is it safe to regularly delete logs (using just the rm > > command) or is there a "correct" way to do it? > > > > Surely, there is a special program to do this (that's more user-friendly than > > logrotate)? > > > > > Sure, you can create a cron job run every day to delete them: > > for example > > man crontab > rm -rf /var/log/cron* > echo "" > /var/log/cron > rm -rf /var/log/messages.* > echo "" > /var/log/messages > .... >
To the OP: Using the echo as in the example above is a good idea. Lots of problems can be caused by just doing an rm. That said, logrotate is the best way to do this, since it archives a copy of your logs if needed. Which logs are you having throuble with?
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