[newbie] Help! Clearing log files

2003-09-30 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just found out that my /var partition is extremly low on free space. Mostly used by log files that getting bigger beyond my expectation. Is there any way that I can periodically clearing this log files? Thanks in advance. - -- Fajar

Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files

2003-09-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:48 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just found out that my /var partition is extremly low on free space. Mostly used by log files that getting bigger beyond my expectation. Is there any way that I can

Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files

2003-09-30 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: One of those jobs tidies up your log files. Do not be surprised if your computer goes crazy with disc accesses after you install anacron. You have a *lot* of log files to tidy :-) derek

Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files

2003-09-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 9:28 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: One of those jobs tidies up your log files. Do not be surprised if your computer goes crazy with disc accesses after you

Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files

2003-09-30 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:07 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Correct. anacron will schedule jobs to run that were not run by cron. Logrotate is the actual package to compress the log files. Logrotate is installed by default in Mandrake, and a cron

Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files

2003-09-30 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:28 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: One of those jobs tidies up your log files. Do not be surprised if your computer goes crazy with disc accesses after you install anacron. You have a *lot* of log files