Geoff Smith wrote: > > All right. > > After puzzling and puzzling over what was eating up all my hard-drive > space, I used Vlad's helpful little command "du" to see where the space > was being taken up. I found 480/580 MB in /var. A little more sleuthing > found 400/480MB were in /log. My syslog, kern.log, and and debug are all > over 100MB each! Can I just delete these files, or what should I do??? > > thx, > > Geoff.
Yes, usually. My dist (RH5.1) comes with utility to rotate them and delete
the oldest.
After you delete them, killall -HUP syslogd
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