Re: system logs management
On Sun, 5 Dec 99 20:33:06 GMT
John <joney@clara.net> wrote:
> What steps do users take to keep logs down to reasonable sizes? I
> have seen nothing on this aspect of management and so have been
> using 'rm' and then creating a new file.
Look into the logrotate package.
> If it is possible, I would like to remove everything older than
> say seven days on a twice monthly basis after checking there is
> nothing I would like to archive for possible future reference.
This is possible with logrotate.
> I haven't yet found a command to empty a file as opposed to
> removing it - does one exist?
# > file
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