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Operating Systems Linux Can we delete /var/log/messages-2015* files Post 302937996 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 11th of March 2015 08:50:24 AM
Old 03-11-2015
It depends if you need the detail being logged.

Have a look at /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and see if you could perhaps compress them or dispose of older ones automatically.




Robin
 

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LEARN ABOUT V7

syslog

SYSLOG(8)							  System Logging							 SYSLOG(8)

NAME

       syslog-ng, syslogd

DESCRIPTION

       There are different syslog daemon implementations supported as the system's syslog service, currently syslogd, syslog-ng and rsyslogd

       The  first  installed daemon activates itself for the syslog service. Starting with openSUSE-11.2, it is rsyslogd, before it was syslog-ng.
       But this depends on the software selection during the installation.

       The name of the daemon used as syslog service is specified in the
       SYSLOG_DAEMON variable in /etc/sysconfig/syslog.

       The yast2 sysconfig module provides a comfortable way to switch to another installed daemon and restart the service.

       The /etc/init.d/syslog init script is able to handle all supported daemons.

BUGS

       Please report bugs at <http://www.suse.de/feedback>

AUTHOR

       Juergen Weigert <jw@novell.com>
       Marius Tomaschewski <mt@novell.com>

SEE ALSO

       sysklogd(8) syslogd(8) syslog.conf(5) syslog-ng(8) syslog-ng.conf(5) rsyslogd(8) rsyslog.conf(5)

syslog								     May 2008								 SYSLOG(8)
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