SLES11 SP2. I thought the message file in /var/log was suppose to logrotate? I got a message today that the drive was out of space. I cd to /var and run $ find . -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk ‘{ print $9 ": " $5 }’. This reports the message file is 29GB in size!! I need to know how to either roll it over or delete and recreate.
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I just used
>/var/log/messagesand this put the size back to 0kb
Hi
It might pay to see what’s filling up the file first…
You sure it hasn’t been rolling them over (as in bz2 files)?
There is the daily logrotate in /etc/cron.daily/ so should be able to
run that manually.
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And to delete… rm /var/log/messages && /etc/init.d/syslog reload
But yeah… if all of those messages came from the past few hours doing
this may not prevent it from happening again in a few more hours.
Good luck.
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