I don't have my pi with me, but in Debian, the logrotate package handles regular rotation and signaling daemons to open new files. You should be able to figure out a suitable configuration from one of the files already in /etc/logrotate.d/
As for the large log file you already have, I think split should be able to break it into multiple pieces that you can read. On 3 June 2016 at 16:42, David <david.g_jo...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Dear Group, > > I am running Syslog-ng on a Raspberry Pi, it stores the data sent to it > on a 64G memory stick. It's working very well. > > I retrieve the syslog file by SSHing into the Pi and copying the file to > my main PC. > > The problem I have is that the file has now grown to 3.7G and normal > text editors wont open it. > > Can anybody recommend a text editor or text viewer that will work with > large files? > > The solution going forward is to get Syslog-ng to start a new file every > month, anybody know if this is possible? > > regards, > > David. > > > -- Cheers, Andrew.
