The logs kept piling up, so...

[C Hamel]

On Sunday 30 April 2006 10:05, Chanchao wrote:
> I noticed all the crap piling up in /var/log and /var/cache pretty much
> uncontrolled, so I did a ' sudo rm -r /var/log/* '  but it turns out a
> lot of packages don't like this at all and are unable to recreate their
> own logs!  I fixed it for apache2, but mysql I'll probably have to
> reinstall as it keeps giving me errors when starting mysqld, even though
> I did recreate a 'mysql' folder in /var/log
>
> Is there a better way to stop logs from piling up and suffocating
> everything?
>
> Cheers,
> Chanchao
Yep... switch to syslog-ng. :-)  I had the same prob w/the default 
installation of both Breezy & Dapper.  Switching fixed the prob.
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	...CH
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