huge /var/log/exim files

Steve Hovey shovey at buffnet.net
Wed Aug 6 08:42:33 PDT 2003


I do

cat /dev/null > mainlog

etc


On 6 Aug 2003, Kirk R. Wythers wrote:

> /var is full, and I see that /var/log/exim files are huge
> 
> root at lorax:230 pwd
> /var/log/exim
> root at lorax:231 ls -lh
> total 172088
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail       102M Aug  6 10:32 mainlog
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail       6.8K Aug  5 03:01 paniclog
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail        66M Aug  5 16:00 rejectlog
> 
> My question is this: If I rm mainlog and reject log, will they be built
> again or is there a more subtle way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kirk
> 
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