logs and which ones to del?

[Gregory Nowak]

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Yes, the gz files are compressed backups of logs so many days
back. You can delete them, or logrotate will do that for you after a
certain number of days (I think the debian default seems to be 4
weeks).

As for which log files you should read, don't read any, unless you
have a specific reason for doing so. If you want to monitor your
system for break in attempts, or for break ins (shudder), install
tools like logcheck and/or tripwire.

Greg


On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 07:58:11AM -0800, tyler wrote:
> Hay,
> When I go to /var, I se a ton of stuff.
> when I go to /var/log, I see a bunch of .gz files, can I del those?
> I have logrotate installed, so I am assuming it just wipes the old logs, and 
> backs those up.
> Also, how do I know which logs to read? If I spent all my time reading logs, 
> life would get boring.
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