Steve

If you open up webmin and look at your scheduled cron jobs you will see a 
daily job called logrotate. The function of this job is to archive old log 
files and delete old archives. You can decide which logs are managed by 
logrotate, the size of the files before they get archived, and how long the 
archives are kept.

Type man logrotate for details and look at /etc/logrotate.conf and 
/etc/logrotate.d

BTW in my standard 8.1 install logrotate did not run properly because one log 
appeared twice in the config file. That caused logrotate to abort without 
doing any archiving. Check your syslog to see if this is happening to you.

Derek




On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:47, Steve Weltman wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Can I reduce the size of my logs (/var/log/-whateverlog) in any way?  Is
> there a problem with either editing it down or deleting them altogether?
>
> Thanks!!


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