Hi Asmeet, > my /var/log/messages file is too big... and as i understand, it gets > compressed and moved to messages1.gz every 7 days... > > how do u force it to do it now?
In a terminal as root (I usually use Ctrl-Alt-F1) type logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf and in a little while you'll find yourself with a whole new set of *.gz files. > also, it is safe to manually delete the messages*.gz files right? Sure is! If you're finding that /var/log is getting filled up too quickly, you can set up a cron job to rotate the logs more often. If you're just running out of space, a truly lovely command is du -sh * |more which will tell you the size of the contents of all directories below the current working directory. Lovely when you're running out of space and don't know *where*! Cheers, -- Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia Linux user #283226 counter.li.org andromeda up 1 day and counting kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk
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