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Re: [LI] Limiting the size of log files

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Subject: Re: [LI] Limiting the size of log files
From: Sathya Rangaswamy <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 20:29:53 -0600
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Mahendra M wrote:

> Hi,
>         I would like to know if the size of the log file ( /var/log/messages )
> can be controlled in any way.
> -Mahendra
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ON RH logrotate will help . Do a man on logrotate. In fact on RH it is already
configured for files in
/var/log and is scheduled as a cron job. The logrotate.conf file is in /etc
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