[SOLVED] Want to eliminate log files on my Debian Sequeeze

toolbox1234 · 01-29-2012, 11:11 PM

Recently, I installed Debian Squeeze on my Pogoplug Pro and plan to use it mainly as a torrent box. So far so good except I notice large number of log files are created. Since I am running Debian off a USB flash drive, I want to minimize the number of writes to the drive. What is the program to eliminate daemon.log, auth.log, log files for apache2 and samba.
Thanks.

widget · 01-29-2012, 11:53 PM

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

May help you out.

If not I suggest you run a forum search using "remove log files". I did not do that I just used "log files".

This is why you need to mark solved threads solved. Makes forum searches work better.

toolbox1234 · 01-30-2012, 12:05 AM

Thank you but that is not what I want. I don't want log fles to be created at the first place.

widget · 01-30-2012, 01:56 AM

Why on earth not?

I do not believe that there is an operating system in existence that does not create log files. I most fervently hope not anyway.

No matter how stable a system is there will be problems of one kind or another. Without log files you have no way to diagnose the problem.

Clearing them occasionally is one thing. Not having them is just a wreck.

toolbox1234 · 01-30-2012, 10:57 AM

This is a headless very limited purpose machine. If I accepted the consequences of no log files, is there a way to stop them from being created?
Thanks.

widget · 01-30-2012, 12:46 PM

Probably. Have no idea what it would be.

I think you would have to compile your own kernel.

You would probably be better off to create a script to empty them and make it a cron job.

toolbox1234 · 01-30-2012, 01:05 PM

using a script will not minimize number of writes to the USB flash drive. I was thinking about putting the log files on the hard drive. The draw back of that is the hard drive will never spin down even when I have nothing to upload/download. If I can't stop them from being created, I may have to route them to RAM and empty them often.

toolbox1234 · 02-02-2012, 01:03 PM

By deleting /etc/rsyslog.conf, most of the files are gone. Apache2 still needs its log file but I can manage it with its conf file.