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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:54:08 +0100
From: Armin Arh <armin@pubbox.net>
To: Oliver Iberien <odilist@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: cleaning out log files?
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Check "/etc/newsyslog.conf"
All log-files you like to have rotated, should be mentioned there.

System owned logs are in there per default.

"du -k /var" will tell you where your space is being "consumed".
Maybe your "/var/mail/root" is growing...

How big is your /var anyway?

Armin
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On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:37:18AM -0800, Oliver Iberien wrote:
> I've noticed that my /var partition, on a machine being used as a desktop, is 
> about 80% full and would like to know what in it can safely be deleted, or if 
> there is some accepted way to trim log files down with a cron job, etc. 
> Thanks!