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If you don't need to keep your logs for any specific reason, then you
can just remove them. I use the method:
:>/var/log/syslog
This just removes all content in the log without actually removing the
file. I found it to be very safe.
The other way you could do it was to just remove the files:
rm /var/log/syslog
Then restart the "syslogd" daemon so that the files will be properly
recreated. (c:
Cheers,
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, 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.
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