huge /var/log/exim files
Jez Hancock
jez.hancock at munk.nu
Wed Aug 6 09:07:36 PDT 2003
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:50:36PM +0100, John Ekins wrote:
>
> --
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:42:27 -0400 (EDT)
> Steve Hovey <shovey at buffnet.net> wrote:
>
> ->
> -> I do
> ->
> -> cat /dev/null > mainlog
> ->
> -> etc
>
> Or how about exicyclog? It installed as part of exim. It is the "more
> subtle" way.
Or have exim write to dated logfiles:
log_file_path = /var/log/exim/%s.%D.log
(in /usr/local/etc/exim/configure)
ie:
[17:05:30] root at users /home# ls -l /var/log/exim/
<snip>
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 101766 Aug 5 23:59 main.20030805.log
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 126424 Aug 6 17:02 main.20030806.log
That way you can just remove the older logfiles (once you've backed up
first of course!).
--
Jez
http://www.munk.nu/
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