Well, after your suggestion I looked for logrotate and yes, it is installed. In the logrotate.conf appear the following lines:
# rotate log files weekly weekly # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs rotate 4 because my potato system is younger than 4 weeks I will wait before doing anything. Thanks for the help! On 03-Dec-2000 Karl E. Jørgensen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:33:05PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am concern about the size of the log files in the system. I am new to >> Linux, so I am rather surpresed that every process in the system seems >> to >> write to a log file, which becomes bigger and bigger in time! Does >> exists >> a way of do a housekeeping over all logs in the system? > > Sounds like you haven't installed the logrotate package? It will rename > & compress logs and allow you to keep only a set number of days worth. > It's pretty much an "install-and-forget" type package - I never had to > change anything in there... > > Hope this helps ---------------------------------- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
