On Friday, February 21, 2003 13:39, Richard Beri wrote: > My /var/log/messages and messages.0 are getting very large. messages > alone is almost 500 meg. Is is safe to delete these files (I don't > need to read any back error messages). My syslog is also reaching > 500 meg ais that safe to be deleted. Will they be auto-created again?
For next time, you might like to discover a utility called logrotate. It will regularly archive and/or delete old log files and set up new empty ones in their place. I think you can empty a file (while preserving its permissions) by overwriting it with the empty string: # echo "" > /var/log/messages Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
