Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Alexander Fitterling wrote:
> Everyone :)
>
> I am using Debian testing/unstable. I wished to get rid of
> klogd,sysklogd, cron/anacron - I did so. 
...
> /var/log amounts around 400MB of size - this is way huge! I want to
> get rid of those files - could that be done without any problems if
> considering to run the system without logging capabilities?

  you need logs (now or later).

  install logrotate to rotate logs (it makes sure that you don't have 
too much logs, you can configure it to keep more or less logs around)

	erik