Re: logs

[chiappa@centroin.com.br]

Well, after your suggestion I looked for logrotate and yes, it is
installed. In the logrotate.conf appear the following lines:

# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

because my potato system is younger than 4 weeks I will wait before doing
anything.
Thanks for the help!

On 03-Dec-2000 Karl E. Jørgensen wrote:
> 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
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