On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, philomena wrote:
>I will subscribe to that list, but my question is not really a
>PMFirewall question - its about controlling the size of the system log
>files - since I saw a syslog.gz , which I know I didn't create, I am
>assuming there is some system utility that compressed the
>/var/log/syslog file when it reached some filesize. The same happened
>with /var/log/messages - there was a messages.gz, which I didn't create.
>Is there a system parameter or service that monitors and controls the
>size of specified log files ? If so, I want to set that max file size to
>something small, so that my system doesn't go haywire while I am workign
>on the firewall issue.
Hi Philomena,
Once a week a cronjob runs, executing the /etc/cron.weekly jobs
In that directory there probably is a job called 'logrotate'. This is what
creates the tar.gz files.
Paul
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