On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:09 -0700,
joe@actionline.com wrote:
> The /var/log/syslog on my system got really large and cluttered up with a
> new entry being added every minute for several days due to a "stuck"
> printer (which I finally got corrected). So I tried to restart the system
> logger to clear out all the excess clutter and start over, but the command
> to do that FAILS. So is it okay to just delete the /var/log/syslog and
> /var/log/message files to get a fresh start?
>
> In addition to 'restart' (which FAILED), I also tried 'stop' and 'start'
> (both of which work, although 'start' also returns a "FAILED" response
> (which I don't understand).
>
> In any case, if anyone would care to review the steps I've tried and the
> results, I've posted a 65 line recap at the following link:
>
> http://www.upquick.com/linux/restart.logger.txt
>
> But my question is just this: Is there any problem or reason why I should
> not just delete those two bloated log files?
>
> Or, is there some other (better) way to clear out all the superfluous
> excess in those log files?
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as root...
> /var/log/messages
which is shorthand for, echo "" > /var/log/messages
or whichever file you want to empty.
Done
Craig
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