Thank you all , sorry to take so long to answer and the logrotate really had worked for me. Thanks again.
On 10/27/05, W.Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > syslog-ng does. > > > bunyip ~ # ls /etc/logrotate.d > apache2 hibernate-script mysql scrollkeeper syslog-ng > > bunyip ~ # qpkg -f /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng > app-admin/syslog-ng * > bunyip ~ # > > so you just need to check the file is present, install logrotate and sit > back and watch it happen. > > BillK > > > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 07:58 +0200, Heinz Sporn wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 17:12 -0300 schrieb Allan Spagnol Comar: > > > Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked.... > > > I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can > > > reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng > > > config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. > > > > I'm using sysklogd myself and with that comes a syslog.cron script > > in /etc/cron.daily that rotates it's logfiles. Shouldn't there be a > > similar thing in syslog-ng? If not you could always use logrotate. > > > > > > > > Thanks, Allan > > > > > -- > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > > > > Heinz Sporn > > > > SPORN it-freelancing > > > > Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Website: http://www.sporn-it.com > > Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 > > A-4540 Bad Hall > > Austria / Europe > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
