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MAST
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 Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject: /var/log/messages takes up 8GB |
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Hello, when I do a ls -lah /var/log/messages:
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# ls -lah /var/log/messages
-rw------- 1 root root 8,1G abr 1 17:50 /var/log/messages
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I have been reading that is not very recommended to delete this file. How can I delete it safely?
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polle
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Cybersorcerer
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| Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
well it is not recommended because you will loose the log data but i guess you can't search an 8Gig file anyway so
i would delete it. Also i would emerge and customize logrotate.
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linuxtuxhellsinki
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| Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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If it's not really important server or something like that, I'd just save some 10000 last lines of it and rm the rest 
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tail -n10000 /var/log/messages2 > /var/log/messages
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g3npirate
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:57 am Post subject: eh,? |
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| eh, its 8 gigs man, that to me seems rediculous for a log file. i'd say take your chance and delete it lol |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:32 am Post subject: |
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| If you're not familiar with setting up syslog-ng.conf to log to separate files, or using logrotate (a derelict from the early days of unix) then metalog is a better choice because it rotates logfiles by default. |
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