Re: Doubt on /var/log/messages

["Srikrishnan Chitoor" <krishnan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can delete them. if you have a policy of keeping say 'n' days of
messages, you might want to actually go through them, look at the date and
then delete if they are older than your policy allows.

- -Krishnan.
- -----Original Message-----
From: N.S.Srinath <susri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxx <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, July 09, 1999 10:33 PM
Subject: Doubt on /var/log/messages


>
>Hello,
>
>I use linux (RH 5, from PCQ).  I'm a newbie in sysadmin.
>
>In my /var/log, there are 5 messages files.  Current messages are in
>messages file, whereas older messages are in messages.1 ... messages.4
>files.
>
>Also, there are 5 maillog files, similar to the messages files.
>
>Can I delete those old files?
>
>TIA,
>Srinath.
>
>
>
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