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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers cleaning log files Post 41610 by Kelam_Magnus on Thursday 9th of October 2003 11:52:19 AM
Old 10-09-2003
Yes you have allowed the file to get too large. There are ways to view it like using "more" and page and tail/head... Also there is a command called split, that might work for you. I would try to copy it and then manipulate the copy to try and break it up.

To simply zero out the file type "> filename" this uses the cat redirect to input "null" to the file thus overwriting any data in the file.

However, most folks dont like to do that... I would suggest setup a cron to copy/move and compress log files so that they never get too large. The frequency depends on how fast they grow. I would start with a monthly cron at first.


cp log.orig log.bak.<date>
compress log.bak.<date>
> log.orig
 

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SCANLOGS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       SCANLOGS(8)

NAME
scanlogs - summarize INN log files. SYNOPSIS
scanlogs [ norotate ] [ nonn ] DESCRIPTION
Scanlogs summarizes the information recorded in the INN log files (see newslog(5)). By default, it also rotates and cleans out the logs. It is normally invoked by the news.daily(8) script. KEYWORDS
The following keywords are accepted: norotate Using this keyword disables the rotating and cleaning aspect of the log processing: the logs files are only scanned for information and no contents are altered. nonn Normally the nn log file is scanned and rotated. Using this keyword disables this function. If scanlogs is invoked more than once a day, the ``norotate'' keyword should be used to prevent premature log cleaning. HISTORY
Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. This is revision 1.1, dated 1996/10/29. SEE ALSO
innd(8) newslog(5), news.daily(8), nnrpd(8). SCANLOGS(8)
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