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Re: [cobalt-users] raq4r - log files too big



On Wednesday 22 May 2002 10:55 am, wcstaff wrote:
> I have a raq 4r and the system is crashing every morning around 7:00am. I
> receive a message that the server is low on memory, every morning at 4:45.
> I have narrowed it down to the log rotation. some of my logs are 300 megs
> in size and way too big. I think the purging and rotation is failing. Is
> there any fixes for this or a method of purging the logs?

Which files are big?

look at /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
See what the rotation size is set to;
If it looks OK try running logrotate manually

/usr/sbin/logrotate  /etc/logrotate.d/syslog

and see if you get any errors
You might read   man logrotate

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