Re: Trimming down of /var/log/messages

[USM Bish <bish@nde.vsnl.net.in>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:51:50PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> USM Bish <bish@nde.vsnl.net.in> 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
>   Priority: important
>   Section: admin
>   Conffiles:
>    /etc/logrotate.conf 70593fe48cb39133328b42a560b5a8cf
>   Description: Log rotation utility
>    The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of
>    log files on a system which generates a lot of log files.
>    Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal
>    and mailing of log files.  Logrotate can be set to handle a log
>    file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain
>    size.  Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job.
> 

Thanks for the input. I'll try to do an apt-get
for logrotate if I get a Slink binary on one of
the debian mirrors.  Should be a handy thing to
try out.

USM Bish