On 03/11/01 11:19 +0530, Dr.K.S.Sangunni wrote: > I ran in to a problem. I found in /var/log the file messages and secure > has grown big. I removed messages and secure. In secure I found lot of ftp Not a good idea. echo "" > /var/log/messages and then killall -HUP syslogd.
> activities reported. This is expected because all the students will be > ftping files and it is local network. What the secure do? Can I stop this messages contains general logging information. secure contains information about who logged in, when and from where. > log? What is wtmp? Can I remove this also? wtmp lists who logged in, from where, and for how long they were connected. w and who read this file. You could just stop syslog, but that is *not* a good idea. Just rotate your logs (logrotate is a good tool) regularly, dialy if need be. Devdas Bhagat _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
