Need to free space from Linux server

alanoco79 · 04-23-2010, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kirukan

To avoid this situation in future, better to ask your Administrator to add logrotate for these logs

Unfortunately, I AM the administrator!!

alanoco79 · 04-23-2010, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by catkin

Will reply now we have some breathing space. Which logs? I didn't spot any big logs not being rotated.

I zapped all the messages.x and maillog.x files

kirukan · 04-23-2010, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by catkin

Will reply now we have some breathing space. Which logs? I didn't spot any big logs not being rotated.

The logs are rotated in periodically but not compressed.

refer the following site for logrotation
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-rotate-log-files/

Please take some clear notes about these parameters
sample:-

PHP Code:



/var/log/httpd/*.log {
 weekly
 rotate 3
 compress
  missingok
  notifempty
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
      /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true    endscript
}

alanoco79 · 04-26-2010, 05:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kirukan

The logs are rotated in periodically but not compressed.

refer the following site for logrotation
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-rotate-log-files/

Please take some clear notes about these parameters
sample:-

PHP Code:



/var/log/httpd/*.log { 
 weekly 
 rotate 3 
 compress 
  missingok 
  notifempty 
  sharedscripts 
  postrotate 
      /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true    endscript 
}

Thanks for that, I'll have a look and see if I can get my head around it, although I'm a bit nervous of making any changes to the server config: if it stops working again, I'm really up the creek!!