A weeks syslog on my box gzips down to about 30K. I can keep a several
months of logs on a floppy, comfortably.
I'd strongly advise against logrotating daily unless you don't want the
logs. If you don't want the logs, switch them off.
-----Original Message-----
From: Erylon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 4:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Log size in Linux
On Saturday 19 January 2002 01:05, you wrote:
> I have a question about the log file.
> I have run my Mandrake Linux for 2 weeks and I found the syslog
and
> other log files have become larger and larger.
>
> Is there any way I can limit the size of these log files and make
it
> automatically cut the beginning part when it over the size limit?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Daniel
My solution has not been to place a limit on the log files, but to
change the
time that the system uses to rotate (and delete them).
As root:
Go the your /etc/logrotate.conf
Replace "weekly" with "daily".
Replace "rotate 4" with "rotate 1"
Replace all incidences of "monthly" with "weekly"
This will go a long way to preventing the logs from getting out of
hand.
Years ago, I discovered that a small hard disk could get filled up
with logs
and cause all kinds of problems, so I do this as a matter of course
with
every installation.
hth
e
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