+++ Devdas Bhagat [linux-india] <03/11/01 12:10 +0530>:
> 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.
Hey, isn't there something like logrotate or newsyslog which will take care
of this? Why manually remove old logfiles?
> Just rotate your logs (logrotate is a good tool) regularly, dialy if
> need be.
In fact just running logrotate would do rather than echo > /var/log/messages
-srs
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