Hi
I want to delete just the full content of each file in /var/log but without deleting them, the general process is a loop that grabs the content of each file, remove it and leave the file empty and so one. But I don't figure how to do that since there is in this directory also some files with gz extension wich I don't think it isimportant to delete their content.

I want to delete the content because I was chocked by the huge size of my logs file, please don't tell me to just compress it because I remove the content from time to time of course.

Regards

Use log-rotation. It automagically removes older log files for you.

Anyway, what you want can't be done. What you can do is write a script that reads the name of each file in a directory, removes it and then creates a new, empty file of the same name. Essentially, you're about 3/4 of a log-rotation tool if you get that working...

Hi Dutch
Some applications may probably need the existence of its associated log files like postgresql so for that reason i wouldn't like to just delete any file with .log extension on that directory and this is an easy task anyway. So better to remove only the content and leave the file empty or as you have suggested, read file name delete it and recreate a new empty one.

Have you checked this?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...debian-404616/

Hi toolbox1234
The last command didn't seem to work properly and I have read this topic before posting here. It toll that the 'do' is not expected. I will try manually clear some log files but I appriciate more confortable way.