Re: The logs kept piling up, so...

On Mon, 1 May 2006 01:05, Chanchao wrote:
I noticed all the crap piling up in /var/log and /var/cache pretty much
uncontrolled, so I did a ' sudo rm -r /var/log/* ' but it turns out a
lot of packages don't like this at all and are unable to recreate their
own logs! I fixed it for apache2, but mysql I'll probably have to
reinstall as it keeps giving me errors when starting mysqld, even though
I did recreate a 'mysql' folder in /var/log

Is there a better way to stop logs from piling up and suffocating
everything?

man 8 logrotate

As for the mess you created...good luck :)

James
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