With time, the size of /var/log/messages keeps on growing,
till it really becomes really huge, with information no
longer needed. Since syslogd is constantly monitoring and writing on to
it, I have never attempted initialising a fresh /var/log/messages on a
running machine.
Is there a recommended
hi ya
make sure cron is runningit already rotates log files
weekly/monthly... at least on the 1u raid5 debian box
i poke around in
if you want to manually rotate your logs
kill syslogd or sysklogdthan move it aside...
but you must also kill things like the web server
too that logs
USM Bish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With time, the size of /var/log/messages keeps on growing,
till it really becomes really huge, with information no
longer needed. Since syslogd is constantly monitoring and writing on to
it, I have never attempted initialising a fresh /var/log/messages on a
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 09:56:36PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
hi ya
make sure cron is runningit already rotates log files
weekly/monthly... at least on the 1u raid5 debian box
i poke around in
I need to do some reading on 'cron', and actually do
some fine-tuning. I have 'cron' running
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:51:50PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
USM Bish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a recommended way wherein I keep the log for the
last seven days only, with some process at boot-up or cron ?
Seems like logrotate will fit your bill.
Package: logrotate
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