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by **Teo Hong Sia** » Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:00:00

My /var/log/messages is now over 3 meg, and my syslog is 200+ k. I'm
very curious how far is this going to go ?
Is there a way to restrict their sizes ?

cheers,
Hong Siang.
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by **Laussy Fabric** » Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> Is there a way to restrict their sizes ?

erase

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by **Dirk Geschk** » Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> My /var/log/messages is now over 3 meg, and my syslog is 200+ k. I'm
> very curious how far is this going to go ?
> Is there a way to restrict their sizes ?

You can simply copy the files like this:

cp messages messages.old
cp /dev/null messages

This creates the new file messages.old and reduces the size of messages
to zero. Now you can zip the old file or simply remove it if you don't
need it. The second line is necessary to keep syslogd logging the
messages. This procedure could also be done with the other files which
are used by syslogd,

Dirk

by **Michael Jame** » Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> My /var/log/messages is now over 3 meg, and my syslog is 200+ k. I'm
> very curious how far is this going to go ?
> Is there a way to restrict their sizes ?

> cheers,
> Hong Siang.

You could copy them to /dev/null every time you reboot

Unfortunatly they will grow untill they gobbol up your entire hard disk.

ps as they are updated by a system daemon they will even use the 5%
reserved for root

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by **Tom Evan** » Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> > Is there a way to restrict their sizes ?

> erase

^^^^^^
Bad idea, because they are open files, better just write to them via
cp /dev/null ...
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by **Nikita V. Youshchenk** » Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> My /var/log/messages is now over 3 meg, and my syslog is 200+ k. I'm
> very curious how far is this going to go ?
> Is there a way to restrict their sizes ?

> cheers,
> Hong Siang.
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There is a nice utility from RedHat, called "logrotate"
It will do all thing.

P.S. I don't use redhat, but this utility is a good thing anyway ...

by **Pierfrancesco Cac** » Sun, 28 Sep 1997 04:00:00

Quote:
> My /var/log/messages is now over 3 meg, and my syslog is 200+ k. I'm
> very curious how far is this going to go ?
> Is there a way to restrict their sizes ?

I have cron clean up some directories at night time. It automatically copies
the old files to an OLD directory and gzip them, numbering the files 1 to 7.
No more than 7 days of backlog are kept. For some less useful files I have 4
days of backlog.

I have a Debian distribution here and this sistem is standard for Debian.
So I did not reinvent the wheel :-)

Pf

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by **Nix** » Mon, 29 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> > > Is there a way to restrict their sizes ?

> > erase
> ^^^^^^
> Bad idea, because they are open files, better just write to them via
> cp /dev/null ...

cat /dev/null ..., surely? I can't see what good copying a device file
over them would do.

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by **Jamie Hoglun** » Wed, 01 Oct 1997 04:00:00

: My /var/log/messages is now over 3 meg, and my syslog is 200+ k. I'm
: very curious how far is this going to go ?
: Is there a way to restrict their sizes ?

Not exactly sure, (since I don't do this) but you could use tail on them.

tail /var/log/messages >/tmp/messages.$$
cp /tmp/messages.$$ /var/log/messages
rm -f /tmp/messages.$$

You might want to backup the original file or something.

Jamie

by **James Youngma** » Tue, 07 Oct 1997 04:00:00

Teo> My /var/log/messages is now over 3 meg, and my syslog is 200+
Teo> k. I'm very curious how far is this going to go ?

Depends on your setup. I have

966 samba
1046 messages.2.gz
1141 messages
3292 maillog.2.gz
4232 debugmsgs
5022 samba.nmb
17042 allmsgs
24724 cron
27573 maillog
29077 pacct

Teo> Is there a
Teo> way to restrict their sizes ?

Most distributions have a facility available for t* long
logfiles. For example Red Hat Linux does this with one of the scripts
in /etc/cron.daily, I think.

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