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#1 2005-12-17 19:52:01
- atze
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keeping logfiles small
Hello Everybody,
I wonder if there is a way to keep your logfiles (or your /var/log dir) small, like setting a quota on it?
And a subquestion , is it really nessesary to keep your log files or to have your syslog-ng daemon running?
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#2 2005-12-17 19:55:12
- ozar
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Re: keeping logfiles small
No, it's not really necessary to have it running, but the info contained in the files can come in handy at times. I clean mine out now and then, but otherwise do keep it running.
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#3 2005-12-17 20:13:14
- T-Dawg
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Re: keeping logfiles small
logrotate should take care of cleaning up log files. It keeps 4 copies of each log and runs everynight as a cronjob.
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