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From: dhk <dhkuhl@optonline.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:45:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6A765B.5040600@optonline.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008171317.44870.wonko@wonkology.org>

On 08/17/2010 07:17 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
Right, I need logrotate.  I though it was installed.  Must have been on
the old system.

Thanks,

dhk



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-17 11:47 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
2010-08-17 11:45         ` dhk [this message]
2010-08-17 23:40       ` Peter Humphrey

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