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My /var/log filesystem is filling up (due to the large number of .gz files from previous days activity). Simple question is can i safely delete them from the console? (ie rm *.gz whilst in /var/log).

Any help much appreciated as I'm fast running out of disk space.

Ta very much in advance.

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0 dhickman over 23 years ago

Yes. It should not hurt the system if you delete anything in /var/log.

If you are having ongoing problems with this, i would consider backing the firewall up and reinstalling on a bigger hd. or have the firewall send its logs to another system and have a cronjob remove the .gz files on a regular basis.

dhh
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0 mr b over 23 years ago in reply to dhickman

Many thanks for your courteous reply. I need to get busy deleting then.

I shall also take on board your valued comments. Much appreciated.
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0 emgadmin over 23 years ago in reply to mr b

It's better to reboot if you delete all logs.

This because some daemons will "loose" their files, if u do a rm -f * , and them could complain or fill up your console with logs
So you must reload all the daemons that are running, in order to make them restar their own
log files.

Much cleaner if you reboot, so all logs are recreated from the respective daemon.
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0 BarryG over 23 years ago in reply to emgadmin

I would think that you could
rm *.gz
without annoying any of the daemons.

Barry
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0 emgadmin over 23 years ago in reply to BarryG

Yes, I agree.

Is safe to remove any gzipped file.
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0 emgadmin over 23 years ago in reply to BarryG

Yes, I agree.

Is safe to remove any gzipped file.
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