On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 13:39, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > Is there a way to reduce the sizes of logfiles? For example my fetchmail > logfile weighs around 50+ MB now. > Lets say I would like to limit some logfiles to only keep the logs 30 > days, how would I do that? > In .fetchmailrc for example? As a general rule that should be done by your log daemon. I use metalog log size and history is set in /etc/metalog/metalog.conf. e.g.:
maxsize = 100000 maxtime = 86400 maxfiles = 5 Whatever you use as your logging daemon should have this capability too. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list