On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Francois Massonneau wrote:
> Hello,
> How do you do to keep the size of the log files to a "normal" size ?
> Do you run a script, ??
> The /var/log/daemon.log file is about 21megas, /var/log/kern.log : 3
> megas, /var/log/messages : 35 megas, /var/log/syslog : 35 megas,
> /var/log/wtmp: 5 megas.
> Thank you. Francois
>
>
You probably should look into the logrotate package. It is part of the
standard RedHat distribution. It normaly runs daily as a cron job, and
it is configurable on how it manages your log files.
Mikkel
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