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Purging log files

Hello
I've got messages coming to me that my /var partition is full and I realized that it was because i forgot to drop all broadcast traffic (it filled up in a month), and was wondering how to purge the log file. Do I just SSH in and delete it?

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0 giallu over 23 years ago

hi john,

yes, of course you can log in the box, go to /var/log then gelete old logs. you will find them gzipped the the date attached so it is easy to detect which ones to delete. please note I read somewhere there should be a CRON job to do that in automatic.

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0 comeanddance over 23 years ago in reply to giallu

>>>please note I read somewhere there should be a CRON job to do that in automatic.

Do you know where you find this CRON information so it can be setup to do it automatically.?????
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0 BarryG over 23 years ago in reply to comeanddance

ISTM there is a bug here...

/etc/crontab
and
/etc/crontab-static

point to
/usr/local/bin/log-cleaning.sh

but all I see is
/usr/local/bin/log-cleanER.sh

(Using ASL 1.90)

Barry
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