[newbie] Logs size...

2001-11-29 Thread Steve Weltman
Hi group, Can I reduce the size of my logs (/var/log/-whateverlog) in any way? Is there a problem with either editing it down or deleting them altogether? Thanks!! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Re: [newbie] Logs size...

2001-11-29 Thread Derek Jennings
Steve If you open up webmin and look at your scheduled cron jobs you will see a daily job called logrotate. The function of this job is to archive old log files and delete old archives. You can decide which logs are managed by logrotate, the size of the files before they get archived, and how

Re: [newbie] Logs size...

2001-11-29 Thread Erylon Hines
On Thursday 29 November 2001 15:47, you wrote: Hi group, Can I reduce the size of my logs (/var/log/-whateverlog) in any way? Is there a problem with either editing it down or deleting them altogether? Thanks!! No, they can be deleted (I've done it). But, by far the better way is to