From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 08:42:33 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 9E45437B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 08:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D3F43F85 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 08:42:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet5.buffnet.net (buffnet5.buffnet.net [205.246.19.14]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.12.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id h76FgZ3S021525; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:42:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:42:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: "Kirk R. Wythers" In-Reply-To: <1060184521.11385.32.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 15:42:33 -0000 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >