On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Andrew Kae wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have noticed that some of /var/log files such as syslog and lastlog > files are getting very large ~ 18-20 MB. Is it ok to just delete them and > recreate them?
Yes, you can delete & recreate them, but do not forget to send a SIGHUP to syslog after that (or run /etc/init.d/sysklogd reload). There is a cron script that rotates these logs, and you should really check why cron doesn't runs it.
