Michael Scottaline wrote:
>
> Is it OK to delete the contents of this file occasionally. They are just "event"
>messages no?
> edit/select all/delete????????????
>
> TIA
> Mike
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Mike,
Depnds on your system polcies. If it is a workstation there would be
no harm to delete it. If you are debugging a new service that you have
installed, or you think there may have been a security breach, it would
be a good idea to cp the file over somewhere for furture reference.
Also there is the syslog, that logs system programs, you could also
null this one. If you are running apache there will be (depending on
your distrubation, this may be differant) /usr/local/http
(/usr/local/apache,
/var/adm, /var/adm/httpd) you http (apache) log files, these do take
some
space also.
It is best to zero out the file instead of deleteing it. If you delete
it,
you will have to restart (-HUP) the program loging to it, do a
`cp /dev/null /var/adm/messages` or something simpler.
Jack
