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Date:      Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:42:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: huge /var/log/exim files
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10308061142170.1659-100000@buffnet5.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <1060184521.11385.32.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>

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I do

cat /dev/null > mainlog

etc


On 6 Aug 2003, Kirk R. Wythers wrote:

> /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
> 
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