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Re: Reserving space for mail on /var



On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:05:51PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:04, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > Those files are handled by logrotate -- you can get that to delete them on
> > each rotation.
> 
> If the file gets bigger than 1gb during the day, will it still rotate it
> out of existence or does logrotate just run daily? Also, I am not that
> keen on deleting log files - who knows when I might need the one that I
> just deleted.
> 
> Shri
Hi,
if you do:
man logrotate
you will see a 'size' parameter as well as a way to have the log
'mail'ed to you.
-Kev

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