my default crontab file had examples on trimming file sizes.
Personally we zip up the files at the end of each month and stop the syslog
program and then restart it.
Randy
At 07:54 AM 4/22/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I just noticed that my log files are getting pretty large. The
>/var/log/messages is 7MB and one called /var/log/cron is about 11MB. Is
>there a way that I can clear these? I supposed just deleting them would be
>a bad idea.
>
>Thanks for any advice,
>
>Michael Segulja
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>
>
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