Re: overly large /var/log/messages

[Rick Warner]

Look at the logrotate system.  It can, and should, be set to rotate all
logs include the message file either on a set schedule or when the logs
exceed a certain size.  If it is not happening then logrotate is not
running or is experiencing an error.  If it is not running, make sure it
is set to run in cron.  Then check the logrotate.status file to see when
various logs were last rotated; if it has been a while then logrotate must
be experiencing an error, which in my experience is usually something
screwy in the logrotate.status file.  If it looks like there is a
problem, I try running logrotate interactively so I can see the errors.

- rick warner



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