Re: /var/log cleanout

To: Mark Panzer <mark.panzer@excel.net>, "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: /var/log cleanout
From: Martin Schulze <joey@tapiola.Infodrom.North.DE>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 01:10:23 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 19980826011023.F11622@tapiola.infodrom.north.de>
Reply-to: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 35E2FEF6.29F21D23@excel.net>; from Mark Panzer on Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 01:14:14PM -0500
References: <[🔎] 35E2FEF6.29F21D23@excel.net>

Mark Panzer wrote:
> Are system maintainers (su's) supposed to clean out the /var/log
> directory after a while?  Mine is up to 15MB and I don't think I really
> need to see if I connected to the internet on June 2nd.  Also is there a
> program which cleans this for you, or what is the correct way?  Thanks.

Normally this should be done by the system itself.  Please check out the
scripts in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}.  They contain several
savelog entries.

If you find spurious logfiles that aren't connected to a package
anymore, report it as a bug.  Logfiles are ought to be removed within
the postinst if a package got --purge'd.

Regards,

	Joey

-- 
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.

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