-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Those are your rotated backlogs, for which logrotate took care of them. They will probably be expunged after a while, and replaced with new backlogs. On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:24:55PM -0400, Erik Heil wrote: > Hi their. I deleted my /var/log/messages file in hope that I'd save some > space (it was approaching 75MB in size.) I've noticed their are files > names messages.1, messages.2, etc. WShould I have done this a different > way? B/c from what I can see, /var/log/messages hasn't been re-created, > if that's what supposed to occur. And what are the purpose of these .1, > .2, etc? B/c I'm confused and couldn't find any documentation on what > they represent. /var/log/lastlog is pretty self explanatory though. > > -- > Erik Heil <eheil at va3duk.serveftp.com> > Phone: (865) 673-0542 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- "The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42." -- Douglas Adams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBbCTlNohoaf1zXJMRAvLHAJ9yArmAQFmGxNwur38gjxodO1sePQCglwEV ss8jtCu9HXM6IuBUhgA/KAY= =NOpT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
