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Hello, |
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:12:30PM -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: |
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> Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked.... |
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> I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can |
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> reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng |
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> config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. |
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> Thanks, Allan |
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try to use logrotate -> app-admin/logrotate |
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and make it an cronjob every night or every week. |
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it will rotate and compress your old logfiles |
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greetz |
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alex |
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