On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:25, dfox wrote: > > My /var/log folder is getting fairly big (10 MB) and its growing quickly > > (this computer has only 660MB for Linux :( ). > > How fast is it filling up? How much is it going to be tomorrow, or > next week? > Not very fast: I'd estimate about 100K a day.
> /var should really be on a separate partition. That's not always > possible, of course. > I agree but with 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? > > Well, the safe way is to kill -HUP the programs that are generating the > logs, rm (or trim) the logs, and then restart the logging programs. That's > basically what logrotate does. > So I can safely delete _anything_ in /var/log? This is the thing that I'm really concerned about: Will I break anything by deleting? > Removing the logs is possible, but you might want to see what's in there > from time to time (otherwise, why bother to log?) so it's usually better > to trim them. So for instance if your logs are over a month old, you could > edit out all entries for December and/or January. I only need to look at the logs for the last 24 hours (it's not connected to the internet but is a LAN telnet, ftp, ssh and mail server :)). Thanks, pesarif
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