On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:33:05PM -0200, chiappa@centroin.com.br wrote: > I am concern about the size of the log files in the system. I am new to > Linux, so I am rather surpresed that every process in the system seems to > write to a log file, which becomes bigger and bigger in time! Does exists > a way of do a housekeeping over all logs in the system? Sounds like you haven't installed the logrotate package? It will rename & compress logs and allow you to keep only a set number of days worth. It's pretty much an "install-and-forget" type package - I never had to change anything in there... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square.
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