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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:15:08 +0200
From: Tomas Jankovic <tomas.jankovic@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size
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Hi Allan,

use logrotate

example - http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_use_cron#Logrotate

Tomas

2005/10/25, Allan Spagnol Comar <allan.comar@gmail.com>:
> 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
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