Hello,

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:12:30PM -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked....
> I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can
> reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng
> config that was emerged by gentoo instalation.
> 
> Thanks, Allan

try to use logrotate -> app-admin/logrotate
and make it an cronjob every night or every week.
it will rotate and compress your old logfiles


greetz

alex

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