On Monday 27 February 2006 15:24, Paul Howarth wrote: > Randy Vice wrote: > > 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? > > I think your favourite GUI editor is the best you'll get. > Maybe Webmin? Anne
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