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russofris
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 Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:51 am Post subject: Easiest way to clean system logs? |
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Good afternoon,
After a couple of months using Gentoo, I have noticed that the system and kernel logs are not automatically cleaned up (They are getting big). What is the easiest way to automate their cleanup? Is there a standerd practice (cron job with a bash script)?
I googled, but all I got was noise. I am certain that this is a simple one that I am missing.
Thank you for your time,
Frank Russo |
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Regor
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Two options come to mind.
1) Use metalog, which takes care of this problem itself.
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2) emerge logrotate.
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russofris
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Regor wrote: | Two options come to mind.
1) Use metalog, which takes care of this problem itself.
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2) emerge logrotate. |
I just emerged-C sysklogd, installed metalog and did a
| Code: | | rc-update add metalog default |
To which I got back
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* metalog added to runlevel default
* Caching service dependencies...
* Service 'metalog' already provide 'logger'!;
* Not adding service 'sysklogd'... [ ok ] * rc-update complete.
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I hope that I am not missing something.
Thank you for your time,
Frank Russo |
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