/var/cache/logwatch outof disk space

ganesh343 · 06-11-2006, 12:15 AM

/var/cache/logwatch/ folder is growing beyond the disk space limits, even after adding extraspace.

How can I limit, and clean-up files?

DrOzz · 06-11-2006, 05:01 PM

setup a cronjob to issue :

Code:

cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages

Now of course change /var/log/messages to the full path to the file you
want to clean.

This is one easy method, I'm sure others will have their input.

unSpawn · 06-11-2006, 05:10 PM

/var/cache/logwatch/ folder is growing beyond the disk space limits
What does it contain? Do you save logs there? If so, do these logs contain huge amounts of lines that should be avoided tweaking the deamon/service filters?