William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> Under Red Hat, the /var directory tends to pile up with useless cruft.
> The 'logrotate' program keeps it organized, but never erases anything.
> Since /var and /etc are both typically on the / partition, if it is small,
> the giant log files can fill up all your space. Erase all the files in
> /var/log which end in .1, .2, etc.
One thing you can do to alleviate some of the crowding is add
'compress' to /etc/logrotate.conf; that way it will compress the
log files when it rotates them.
Bill
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