On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 23:18, Patricia Fraser wrote: > 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,
I might add that if space is a problem and logs are large. edit /etc/logrotate.conf and where it says # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs rotate 4 change it to rotate 2 or 1 this is the number of "backups" it keeps around before the system auto-deletes. james
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