From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 08:37:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EDF637B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 08:37:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mhub-c2.tc.umn.edu (mhub-c2.tc.umn.edu [160.94.128.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B52FB43F3F for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 08:37:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kwythers@umn.edu) Received: from [128.101.74.47] (x74-47.forestry.umn.edu [128.101.74.47] (may be forged)) by mhub-c2.tc.umn.edu with ESMTP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:37:35 -0500 (CDT) X-Umn-Remote-Mta: [N] x74-47.forestry.umn.edu #+HF+LO From: "Kirk R. Wythers" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1060184521.11385.32.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 06 Aug 2003 10:42:01 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: huge /var/log/exim files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 15:37:41 -0000 /var is full, and I see that /var/log/exim files are huge root@lorax:230 pwd /var/log/exim root@lorax:231 ls -lh total 172088 -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 102M Aug 6 10:32 mainlog -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 6.8K Aug 5 03:01 paniclog -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 66M Aug 5 16:00 rejectlog My question is this: If I rm mainlog and reject log, will they be built again or is there a more subtle way to do this? Thanks, Kirk