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From: Heinz Sporn <heinz.sporn@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:39:48
Message-Id: 1130306289.10171.3.camel@spok.local.sporn-it.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size by Allan Spagnol Comar
1 Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 17:12 -0300 schrieb Allan Spagnol Comar:
2 > Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked....
3 > I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can
4 > reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng
5 > config that was emerged by gentoo instalation.
6
7 I'm using sysklogd myself and with that comes a syslog.cron script
8 in /etc/cron.daily that rotates it's logfiles. Shouldn't there be a
9 similar thing in syslog-ng? If not you could always use logrotate.
10
11 >
12 > Thanks, Allan
13 >
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