Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:54:08 +0100 From: Armin Arh <armin@pubbox.net> To: Oliver Iberien <odilist@sonic.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cleaning out log files? Message-ID: <20061126185408.GB686@pubbox.net> In-Reply-To: <200611261037.18806.odilist@sonic.net> References: <200611261037.18806.odilist@sonic.net>
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Check "/etc/newsyslog.conf" All log-files you like to have rotated, should be mentioned there. System owned logs are in there per default. "du -k /var" will tell you where your space is being "consumed". Maybe your "/var/mail/root" is growing... How big is your /var anyway? Armin -- PUBBOX Postmaster + spam-killer. Free email addresses at http://pubbox.net/ On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:37:18AM -0800, 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!
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