Re: [cobalt-users] messages and maillog

[Bob Noordam <bno@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ed wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> how can i make the messages file clear itself every couple of days? i for
> some reason keep on having to delete them cosw they grow so large ... any
> help is recieved with open arms.
>
> Ed
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Hi,

This process is automatic on all cobalts i know, there is a cron.daily 
task which runs "logrotater", which in its turn checks /etc/logrotate.d 
directory for what and how to rotate.

anyway, if you want to do that manual, you can:

cd /etc/cron/.daily

now create a script:  pico myrotate.sh
which contains something like;

cd /var/log
mv messages.6 messages.7
mv messages.5 messages.6
mv messages.4 messages.5
.
.
mv messages messages.1
touch messages

exit, and:   chmod +x myrotate.sh

That will give you 7 days of backlog, and move the logs on every day.

Bob.