Thanks, Kerry, I see I have savelog on this system, but it is not being used. No logrotate though. Guess I have to complete this part of the Slackware implementation by hand. What a pain! No wonder huge hard disks are so popular among Slackware users these days. Chuck On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > There might be a package called savelogs > or logrotate which you can run from cron that can > handle renaming gzipping and deleting logs. > Under debian /var/log/messages and syslog get renamed and gzipped on > a daily basis and 7 days of logs are kept. > 12 months of wtmp are compressed and kept. > You can delete wtmp and it should be created. If you want to make > damn sure, touch the file and chown it to the user/group of the old > one and things should be fine. > logrotate and savelog will do all this for you. > Debian does this automatically as does Redhat. > Slackware is suboptimal in this regard. Unless you went digging you might never > know why diskspace was beeing eaten. > > Regards, Kerry. > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:40:26AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > I have been concerned about some files in Linux which appear to > > grow and are never automatically shrunk, such as > > /var/log/messages and /var/log/wtmp. I have made a crontab entry > > that empties the messages file once a month, but I am wondering > > if anyone knows whether it is safe to do the same for wtmp. Right > > now that file is over 5 MB in size on my system and contains a > > record of all my logins. I could just zap it and see what happens > > I guess, but I wonder if someone wiser than I can tell me ahead > > of time what would happen and maybe save me some grief. > > > > Thanks - Chuck > > > > > > Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (4% of Full) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waxing Crescent (5% of Full)
