Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:07:31 +0100 From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: huge /var/log/exim files Message-ID: <20030806160731.GA54151@users.munk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20030806165036.5856a8f7.john.REMOVE.ekins@brightview.com> References: <1060184521.11385.32.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10308061142170.1659-100000@buffnet5.buffnet.net> <20030806165036.5856a8f7.john.REMOVE.ekins@brightview.com>
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On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:50:36PM +0100, John Ekins wrote: > > -- > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:42:27 -0400 (EDT) > Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> wrote: > > -> > -> I do > -> > -> cat /dev/null > mainlog > -> > -> etc > > Or how about exicyclog? It installed as part of exim. It is the "more > subtle" way. Or have exim write to dated logfiles: log_file_path = /var/log/exim/%s.%D.log (in /usr/local/etc/exim/configure) ie: [17:05:30] root@users /home# ls -l /var/log/exim/ <snip> -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 101766 Aug 5 23:59 main.20030805.log -rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 126424 Aug 6 17:02 main.20030806.log That way you can just remove the older logfiles (once you've backed up first of course!). -- Jez http://www.munk.nu/
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