On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 21:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi...
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> 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?
> also, it is safe to manually delete the messages*.gz files right?
> thanks
> 
> Asmeet.

logrotate -f   forces a log rotation.  And yes all of the .gz files are
deletable without harming the box. 

James

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