On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:55:29PM -0500, Jim wrote: > any way of clearing out the file or backing it up once a week so you > could start with a new log ? It's rotated automatically every Sunday at 4am. If you don't turn your computer on regularly, you should run the anacron service to run the cron jobs that you would otherwise miss. The rotation of /var/log/messages is controlled by logrotate. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
