not that i know of. the rotation of the logs keeps them from getting
"bloated". you can set in your /etc/logrotate.conf file how many weeks to
keep and if you want the logs compressed or not. but answer your
question: no, you cannot (to my knowledge) limit the size of a log file.
cameron
[ How's my programming? Call 1-800-DEV-NULL ]
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Sridhar G wrote:
:On the topic of the message log file, can I control the size of the
:message file to a certain size so that it dosen't bloat.
:
:Cheers
:Sridhar
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: From: Frederic PLE
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: Subject: [expert] log file : /var/log/messages
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: Hi again.
: I would like to know why sometimes I have new files in /var/log called messages.1
:messages.2 etc ?
: Should I understand that regularly the system makes a backup called messages.x and
:reset the messages file ?
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