From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUfYp-0006ZG-Mp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:19:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9Q7GvVT021233; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:16:57 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9Q79boU032136 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:09:38 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D1E318034 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:40:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29760-03-3 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:40:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (h-68-165-147-115.hstqtx02.covad.net [68.165.147.115]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C665118031 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:40:27 -0500 (CDT) From: John Jolet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:42:04 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <1cc2dc830510251312m3af12174jea7b36b9b7dbaf9b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1cc2dc830510251312m3af12174jea7b36b9b7dbaf9b@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510251542.04224.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: f804bea0-13b8-45d5-9900-6d3cdd0cc381 X-Archives-Hash: 6d90252996cfc91eb58c8aac297e99e8 emerge logrotate....it'll let you safely rotate various log files. On Tuesday 25 October 2005 15:12, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > 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. > > Thanks, Allan -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list