Re: /var/log

[Seth R Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>]

On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:46:28PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> is it a good idea to clean completly /var/log at every boot (or each
> week, etc) ? I'm a single user in my computer.

nah, hold onto them. You can gzip them (the logrotate package does this
automagically... :) if the size bothers you...

Of course, there is nothing that says they *have* to be there -- but no one
I know deletes them that often. :)

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