Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:30:02 -0400 From: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> To: Unix Tools <unixtools@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logs take up too much space Message-ID: <20020902143002.A11191@skytrackercanada.com> In-Reply-To: <OE17pHDYLJ5RWcyBASm00013ad4@hotmail.com>; from unixtools@hotmail.com on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:08:46PM %2B0530 References: <20020901030500.A89971@skytrackercanada.com> <OE17pHDYLJ5RWcyBASm00013ad4@hotmail.com>
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Thanks for your reply. > It seems your var partition is vary small. yes > just symlink directories on /var > > 1) mv /var/tmp /usr and ln -s /usr/tmp /var/tmp done > 2) mv /var/mail /usr and ln -s /usr/mail /var/mail done > 3) mv /var/log /usr and ln -s /usr/log /var/log I didn't do this becuase I figured that I then couldn't get logs while running in single user mode - which I rarely do, but I didn't want to set myself up for trouble. I guess I could always delete the link, and create the directory for single user mode, if I need to go there. > > Rotating logs is also a solution. > But most of the softwares rotate logs by default. Is it possible to change the default? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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