Re: /var/log/messages
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:03:57PM +0900 or thereabouts, Nick Hastings wrote:
> * Dana J. Laude <dlaude@attbi.com> [030221 14:47]:
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:39:11PM -0500 or thereabouts, Richard Beri 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
> >
> > If you just want to "reset" the files without a backup, as root
> > type in: "touch /var/log/messages". (minus the quotes and the .)
>
> Won't that just change the access and modification time of the file?
> That happens every 20 minutes anyway (-- MARK --). What else does
> that achieve?
You're absolutly correct. I normally "rm filename" and then do the
above to create a new 0 byte file. Thanks for pointing that out.
Dana
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