files that grow like topsy

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Thanks, Kerry,
I see I have savelog on this system, but it is not being used. No
logrotate though. Guess I have to complete this part of the
Slackware implementation by hand. What a pain!

No wonder huge hard disks are so popular among Slackware users
these days.

Chuck

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> There might be a package called savelogs
> or logrotate which you can run from cron that can
> handle renaming gzipping and deleting logs.
> Under debian /var/log/messages and syslog get renamed and gzipped on
> a daily basis and 7 days of logs are kept.
> 12 months of wtmp are compressed and kept.
> You can delete wtmp and it should be created. If you want to make
> damn sure, touch the file and chown it to the user/group of the old
> one and things should be fine.
> logrotate and savelog will do all this for you.
> Debian does this automatically as does Redhat.
> Slackware is suboptimal in this regard. Unless you went digging you might never
> know why diskspace was beeing eaten.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:40:26AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > I have been concerned about some files in Linux which appear to
> > grow and are never automatically shrunk, such as
> > /var/log/messages and /var/log/wtmp. I have made a crontab entry
> > that empties the messages file once a month, but I am wondering
> > if anyone knows whether it is safe to do the same for wtmp. Right
> > now that file is over 5 MB in size on my system and contains a
> > record of all my logins. I could just zap it and see what happens
> > I guess, but I wonder if someone wiser than I can tell me ahead
> > of time what would happen and maybe save me some grief.
> >
> > Thanks - Chuck
> >
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