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Hi There - I wonder if anyone can advise me on the following please -
' I have been running Linux Mandrake 10 now for almost one year now and am very pleased and impressed with the distro. Looking at my VAR logs there seems to be a lot of old info on some logs so can anyone advise me on how long I should keep this info and what or if there is any procedure to removing them. Although I have enough disk space for these files I would like to keep unnecessary files off the system.'
Take a look at "man logrotate". This way you can set your logs to be rotated daily, weekly, monthly, whatever. You must run logrotate by adding the proper entry in crontab.
No problem, you're welcome. One thing though: the man pages for logrotate aren't exactly verbose and it looks kinda' fuzzy. So, especially when it comes to "sensitive" files such as /var/log/syslog, in my opinion (I'm not very intimate with logrotate myself), you should use the "copytruncate" option instead of "create".
on mdk, logrotate really should be trundling on just fine already.
actually i found mine wasn't set up right on my server just this morning... some failed test i forgot about last year had left kernel/info at 433mb when the disk space finally ran out! oops...
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