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From: Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 09 Dec 2002 13:01:20 +1100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] question about log files> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 12:43, Angus Auld wrote: > > Greetings, another newbie question. :-) > > This is something I have been wondering about for awhile. Is there a program on my >Mdk system that looks after log files? To keep them from getting too large? Or is >there a ceiling on how big these files can get? Seems like wasted space after a while. > > > > My /var/log/messages & /var/log/syslog are 4.5 and 4.8mb respectively. They have >messages going back to my install date on Oct 4. Will these files just continue to >grow? I know, dumb question. But, inquiring minds want to know. > > > > TIA for any feedback. :-) > > > > --Angus > > > > There is a "cap" on the logs, yes. The cap is directly determined by the > amount of free space that you have left on your drive. Once the logfiles > grow to such an extent as to compromise the available free space, the > syslog daemon will then begin to delete unwanted binaries from your > system, along with other unused and unproductive things like bookmarks, > mp3 files, avi's, mpeg's, wallpapers, gif's, jpg's, user accounts and > etc. There does come a time when the log files have grown so large that > the actual OS itself, if it can't be compressed and run in RAM, is > thence deleted itself, and upon next boot, you are notified that you > should have maintained your log files from the very beginning by > deleting the unwanted logfiles, or out of date log files. At that point, > you have to completely reinstall and then configure your log files > properly. > > -- > Mon Dec 9 12:55:01 EST 2002 > 12:55pm up 16:40, 5 users, load average: 0.80, 0.84, 0.67 > > .o0 linux user:267497 0o. > -------------------------------- > | __ __ | kühn media australia > | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com > | .\__/ || | | | > | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn > | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 > | ;"""/ / | | | > | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 > | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU > -------------------------------- > Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn > > Thus spake the master programmer: > "When you have learned to snatch the error code from > the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave." > -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming" > ********************************************************************* I guess I better keep an eye on those files then, huh? ;-) This list is sure a lot of fun. I never had half this much fun when I used that "other OS". --Angus "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."--James Thurber *********************************************** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *********************************************** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *********************************************** -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze
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