Re: clear /var/log/messages

• To: Jim <lawrence.jim@xxxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: clear /var/log/messages
• From: Deron Meranda <deron.meranda@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 23:05:10 -0500
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:55:29 -0500, Jim <lawrence.jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> any way of clearing out the file or backing it up once a week so you
> could start with a new log ?

Read the man page for logrotate

-- 
Deron Meranda

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