On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:39:11 -0500 Richard Beri <richberi@aci.on.ca> wrote: > My /var/log/messages and messages.0 are getting very large. messages > alone is almost 500 meg. Is is safe to delete these files (I don't > need to read any back error messages). My syslog is also reaching 500 > meg ais that safe to be deleted. Will they be auto-created again? > > Thanks If you simply need hard drive space, I would recommend something like burning the logs to a cd before deleting them from your hard drive. Just in case. Next I'd probably do an "apt-get install logrotate" so that your log files are in smaller, more easily manageable sizes. HTH, Jacob ----- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/
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