Re: log messages F13

2010-07-15 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 15 July 2010 10:18, Frank Murphy wrote: > Quite a lot of kvm\qemu, being doing a lot of testing. OK. There are two options here depending on whether or not the KVM/Qemu stuff is useful to you in your testing. If it is, then the best option is probably going to be to try and pull the KVM/Qem

Re: log messages F13

2010-07-15 Thread Frank Murphy
On 14/07/10 21:10, Andy Blanchard wrote: > On 14 July 2010 20:58, Frank Murphy wrote: >> My /var/log/messages >> >> seems to have started hording info. >> It is now 112mb in size. >> Covers 3-4 days of info. > > Unless this is a busy server, then that seems rather excessive to say > the least - mi

Re: log messages F13

2010-07-15 Thread Frank Murphy
On 14/07/10 21:00, Greg Woods wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 20:58 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: >> My /var/log/messages >> > >> What can I do to do a daily clearout? > > man logrotate > > Not that clear actually. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list users

Re: log messages F13

2010-07-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:46 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >> I just checked my own after seeing this posting - and find that >> several of the recent messages files are large: >> -rw---. 1 root root 264K 2010-07-14 21:39 /var/log/messages >> -rw--

Re: log messages F13

2010-07-14 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:46 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > I just checked my own after seeing this posting - and find that > several of the recent messages files are large: > -rw---. 1 root root 264K 2010-07-14 21:39 /var/log/messages > -rw---. 1 root root 1.0M 2010-06-20 03:21 /var/log/messa

Re: log messages F13

2010-07-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Andy Blanchard wrote: > On 14 July 2010 20:58, Frank Murphy wrote: >> My /var/log/messages >> >> seems to have started hording info. >> It is now 112mb in size. >> Covers 3-4 days of info. > > Unless this is a busy server, then that seems rather excessive to say >

Re: log messages F13

2010-07-14 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 14 July 2010 20:58, Frank Murphy wrote: > My /var/log/messages > > seems to have started hording info. > It is now 112mb in size. > Covers 3-4 days of info. Unless this is a busy server, then that seems rather excessive to say the least - mine is currently 14kB, but I redirect quite a bit of s

Re: log messages F13

2010-07-14 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 20:58 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > My /var/log/messages > > What can I do to do a daily clearout? man logrotate -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guide

log messages F13

2010-07-14 Thread Frank Murphy
My /var/log/messages seems to have started hording info. It is now 112mb in size. Covers 3-4 days of info. I use logwatch with daily reports, not sure what went wrong. What can I do to do a daily clearout? No other logs affected. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- use