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Re: trimming the logs



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on Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 02:28:41AM +0000, Pollywog (croak@shadypond.com) wrote:
> My drive was about 55-60% full yesterday, but today it was 98% full,
> so as an emergency measure, I 'rm -rf /opt/kde' but that only got me
> to 96%.  Then it hit me that the idiot who has been portscanning me
> for hours might have filled up the drive.
> 
> I checked the logs and that is what it was.  The logs did not tell me
> where this idiot was connecting from, oddly enough.  I can tell
> iptables to just drop any future packets for those ports (it was port
> 79 and port 1 I believe) and not log them (I do not run fingerd) but
> is there something I should do to keep my logs trimmed automatically?
> I thought my system was taking care of that.  I have never had this
> problem before.

   $ man logrotate

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