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[Scott Kitterman]

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:37:23 +0000 Tez <binary_y2k2 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> On Thursday 08 March 2007 21:34, Lokeey wrote:
>>   
>>> anyone know how i can reduce the number of dot gz files in /var/log?
>>>
>>> i have about 3 or 4 .gz files for each of the following: acpid, 
auth.log,
>>> daemon.log, debug, dmesg, kdm.log, kern.log, mysql.log, syslog, 
user.log,
>>> and Xorg.0.log
>>>     
>>
>> man logrotate
>>
>> Generally they aren't that big.  Unless you are really limited on disk 
space, 
>> I wouldn't bother.
>>
>> Scott K
>>
>>   
>That said, you can safely delete them
>
Sure, but once the logs rotate, unless you change the retention policy the 
count will go right back up again.

Scott K