Thomas H. George wrote:
I ran out of space in a 9 Gbyte /var directory, most of the space consumed by debug, kern.log and syslog files.
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As I noted above, the files were being rotated but not according to the logrotate.conf file so there must be a default somewhere. Where?
On my system, the logfile rotation is configured in /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd and /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd Regards, Hans.