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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:53:03 +0000
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cleaning out log files?
Message-ID:  <200611261853.03955.fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <200611261037.18806.odilist@sonic.net>
References:  <200611261037.18806.odilist@sonic.net>

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On Sunday 26 November 2006 18:37, Oliver Iberien wrote:
> I've noticed that my /var partition, on a machine being used as a desktop,
> is about 80% full and would like to know what in it can safely be deleted,
> or if there is some accepted way to trim log files down with a cron job,
> etc. Thanks!

Are you sure it's the log files, they should be rotated automatically. 

Try running running " du -md1 /var " (as root).



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