From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:17:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008171317.44870.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C6A6B09.4060400@optonline.net>
dhk writes:
> I don't understand why it just started to be a problem. I've had this
> kernel for almost four months. Shouldn't the log's be rotated and
> purged?
Depends on your system logger. Metalog does this automatically, but for
others you probably have to install logrotate.
Wonko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-17 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-17 0:33 [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge dhk
2010-08-17 0:58 ` Adam Carter
2010-08-17 6:45 ` Florian CROUZAT
2010-08-17 10:57 ` dhk
2010-08-17 11:17 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2010-08-17 11:45 ` dhk
2010-08-17 23:40 ` Peter Humphrey
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