Logging?
/var/log holds a lot of different files, and it seems some of them aren't rotated automatically, or at least I haven't experienced it yet. I'm talking about:
btmp dmesg faillog lastlog Is this normal Slackware behavior, or should I do something about it? Regards, Thomas |
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dmesg is remade every boot so it only holds current boot info. Don't know about the others sorry.
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as far as I know and can tell
lastlog - keeps track of when the last time a user logged in (see man lastlog) so technically this shouldn't get to big unless you have tons of users on your system faillog - keeps track of missed log in accounts. I can't see a reason for them to rotate as they are most likely kept pretty small |
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Thanks.. I'll rotate them by hand then. :)
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if you want them to rotate manually .. you also might want to have a look at /etc/logrotate.d/ and see how files are rotated in there.
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