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Re: What's the best way to trim log files?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Fri Oct 23 18:10:10 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 18:07:58 -0400
From: Statux <statux@bigfoot.com>
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I've always found that the best way to trim logfiles is with a text
editor :)
Anthony E. Greene wrote:
>
> At 09:45 1998-10-22 -0700, Raymond H. Kraft wrote:
> >I've got some log files that are getting rather large, and was wondering
> what
> >the best was is to trim them down.
>
> Configure logrotate rotate the logs weekly (or more often) and tell it how
> many iterations to keep.
>
> man logrotate
>
> Tony
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