Re: [cobalt-users] erasing /var/log

[Andreas Banze <andreas@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri Oct 31, 2003 - 01:32:09PM, Jorge Ceballos wrote:

> 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:
> 
[...]
> 
> So the question is.
> Can I erase safely some of the larger logs ? like maillog, wtmp, maillog1.gz
> and messages

You could, but probably it'll not very helpful for your problem - when the
logs grow you get the message again. I doubt that these logs are the culprit
(also they are rotated automatically to avoid filling up the hard drive).

For a quick and temporary solution get rid of all *.1.gz archives, these are
the old logs.

> Will this really help getting more space or I outlooked some bigger files
> which can be erased?

use the du (disc usage) command to check where you need to clean up ("du -h
/var"). 


MfG
Andreas Banze

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