> > On Monday 09 February 2004 16:12, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > The problem is that each of these logs ends up 120 Mb in size and > > > > the remaining space in my 500 Mb /var partition quickly > > > > disappears. > > As an aside, wouldn't it be cool if you could tell logrotate how much > diskspace all the logs combined could be allowed to use, so that it > could rotate, compress and delete logs before they fill up the entire > partition?
Kjetil, Yes, in fact my system did crash in my absense, presumably because of this, and I lost hundreds of e-mail messages before that happened. So the effect can be disastrous. It seems to me such a script could certainly be written. It would find and measure the size of the relevant log files, and when a threshhold value is raeched, start deleting the highest numbered backup log, until the total falls beneath the threshhold. I'm no good at writing scripts, but what little I do know suggests such a utility would be simple to design. Haines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
