On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 10:43:23AM -0700, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Geoff Smith <
> wrote: > [...] > > 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??? > > Sure... But you migth want to take the system down to single user (telinit s) > first, then remove the files, and then go multiuser again (telinit 2). > > There might be programs/daemons that uses those files, and if the file is > removed 'under there noses', they might not like it... :)
This is a good argument for letting 'logrotate' do the deed--it knows
how. (See my earlier message.)
Both alternative suggestions that I've seen on the list so far are only
Band-Aids(tm), in that your log files will once again grow out of control
if you don't keep on watching them and applying this one-time fix.
If you get logrotate working, you have a lasting solution.
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