Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:40:42 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs? Message-ID: <AANLkTikF5zuv90eQW7ie8Quzro524dFtZMHH6MA=fi2r@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D2EBA06.2030200@gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimMvTxsdRXhxzXwjdTDzQ5U7m7kzVc0orGwxM5U@mail.gmail.com> <4D2DE216.6040505@kibug.org> <20110112202145.515b24b3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110113022304.GA2455@stainmore> <4D2EBA06.2030200@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:38 AM, David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>wrote: > But, there is sometime subdirectories in /var/log, it doesn't matter? And > truncate can write on archived files ? such as : > > markand@Melon ~ $ ls /var/log/messages*.bz2 > /var/log/messages.0.bz2 /var/log/messages.1.bz2 > logrotate is your friend. [root@blackdragon /usr/ports]# make search name=logrotate Port: logrotate-3.7.9 Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate Info: Daemon to rotate, compress, remove and mail system log files Maint: js@iksz.hu B-deps: gettext-0.18.1.1 gmake-3.81_4 libiconv-1.13.1_1 popt-1.16 R-deps: gettext-0.18.1.1 libiconv-1.13.1_1 popt-1.16 WWW: [root@blackdragon /usr/ports]# hth/c-
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