Re: log rotation

[Shachar Shemesh]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

Hi

/var is 95% full

When looking for some space I noticedthat /var/log has 1.5GB . And
actually:
  # du -sch /var/log/{xferlog.1,xferlog,messages,secure,wtmp,wtmp.1}
  516M    /var/log/xferlog.1
  293M    /var/log/xferlog
  113M    /var/log/messages
  109M    /var/log/secure
  60M     /var/log/wtmp
  31M     /var/log/wtmp.1
There seems to have been some partial log rotation on around 1-Jul (was
it manual?)
 

I think I did it. I guess the answer is "yes".

Any idea why those logs are nt rotated? Any reason why they shouldn't
be? How long bak should each log be kept?
 

Good question. I guess no more than a month. If we hadn't gotten around 
to looking at it after a month, it's unlikely we'll ever.

         Shachar

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