On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Paul Howarth wrote:
Don Bedsole wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if the logs in the /var/log directory (especially
/var/log/messages) are automatically deleted after a certain period of time
or when the log file gets to a certain size. Or, is this something that
needs to be set up manually by the user using a cron job or something like
that? I have just changed my iptables rules to include some logging and
the messages go to /var/log/messages. I'm not too worried about getting my
hard drive filled up with log messages, but I don't want to save them
forever either. Thank you.
They're rotated on a weekly basis, with IIRC five weeks' messages kept.
See /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
Is there a GUI for managing this?
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