Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After viewing some of my logs in /var/log I see that some are really large >in size. Because I am still learning as I guess we are, is there a easy >way to manage log files and there size. I assume there is some way to have >the contents removed that is older than a certain date. I would not see a >need for any information more than 1 month old in my case.
See 'man logrotate', /etc/logrotate.conf, and /etc/logrotate.d/*. Oh, and there's also a program called 'savelog' which manages a lot of the files in /var/log. They're called from various scripts in /etc/cron.*. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
