[cobalt-users] erasing /var/log

["Jorge Ceballos" <jorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody,

I'm getting "The filesystem [/var] is getting very full" message as /var is
77% used.
Looking into /var I noticed that logs are located in here, as follows:

-rw-------    1 root     root      3063180 Oct 31 13:21 maillog
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root      1779840 Oct 31 13:10 wtmp
-rw-------    1 root     root      1331886 Oct 31 04:36 maillog.1.gz
-rw-------    1 root     root       967514 Oct 31 13:20 messages
----------    1 root     nobody     717332 Oct 31 04:27 xferlog.1
-rw-------    1 root     root       472322 Oct 31 13:15 cron
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       330224 Oct 22 03:11 kernel.1.gz
-rw-------    1 root     root       280278 Oct 31 13:21 secure
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       194180 Oct 31 13:10 lastlog
-rw-------    1 root     root       123978 Sep 22 04:21 auth.1.gz
-rw-------    1 root     root       121276 Oct 31 04:32 secure.1.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       111863 Oct 31 11:00 kernel
-rw-------    1 root     root        87623 Oct 30 04:26 messages.1.gz
-rw-------    1 root     root        85245 Sep 12 04:15 cron.1.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        78966 Apr  3  2003 wtmp.1.gz

etc...


So the question is.
Can I erase safely some of the larger logs ? like maillog, wtmp, maillog1.gz
and messages
Will this really help getting more space or I outlooked some bigger files
which can be erased?

Thanks in advance
Jorge Ceballos V