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From: Heinz Sporn <heinz.sporn@sporn-it.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:58:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130306289.10171.3.camel@spok.local.sporn-it.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cc2dc830510251312m3af12174jea7b36b9b7dbaf9b@mail.gmail.com>

Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 17:12 -0300 schrieb Allan Spagnol Comar:
> Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked....
> I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can
> reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng
> config that was emerged by gentoo instalation.

I'm using sysklogd myself and with that comes a syslog.cron script
in /etc/cron.daily that rotates it's logfiles. Shouldn't there be a
similar thing in syslog-ng? If not you could always use logrotate.

> 
> Thanks, Allan
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-27  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-25 20:12 [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-10-25 20:42 ` John Jolet
2005-10-26  0:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-10-26  0:30 ` Richard Fish
2005-10-26  0:34 ` Mark Shields
2005-10-26  3:16 ` Rumen Yotov
2005-10-26  5:58 ` Heinz Sporn [this message]
2005-10-27  5:37   ` W.Kenworthy
2005-10-27 11:06     ` Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-10-26  6:08 ` z3rosix
2005-10-26  6:15 ` Tomas Jankovic

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