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Re: logfiles are too big

From: Matthias Andree (madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 03:43:17 CST


LuKreme <kremelskreme.com> writes:

> On Apr 1, 2004, at 4:57 AM, lst_hoe01kwsoft.de wrote:
>> Zitat von "Streng, Tobias" <Tobias.Strengschimmelverlag.de>:
>>
>>> Hi! I already set up my postfix server. Is there any tool or
>>> something,
>>> which can delete parts of the syslog logfile? (its already 1 GB after
>>> 1 week
>>> of running the system)
>>>
>>> and: which logfiles are created by postfix?
>>
>> logrotate is your friend ..
>
> how about on bsd where logrotate does not appear to exist? (rotatelogs
> exists, but is apache specific).

"exist"? logrotate exists. If there's no port for your favourite OS,
port it.

FreeBSD has newsyslog.

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