logs and which ones to del?

logs and which ones to del?

[tyler]

Hay,
When I go to /var, I se a ton of stuff.
when I go to /var/log, I see a bunch of .gz files, can I del those?
I have logrotate installed, so I am assuming it just wipes the old logs, and 
backs those up.
Also, how do I know which logs to read? If I spent all my time reading logs, 
life would get boring.
Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield.
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Re: logs and which ones to del?

[Gregory Nowak]

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Yes, the gz files are compressed backups of logs so many days
back. You can delete them, or logrotate will do that for you after a
certain number of days (I think the debian default seems to be 4
weeks).

As for which log files you should read, don't read any, unless you
have a specific reason for doing so. If you want to monitor your
system for break in attempts, or for break ins (shudder), install
tools like logcheck and/or tripwire.

Greg


On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 07:58:11AM -0800, tyler wrote:
> Hay,
> When I go to /var, I se a ton of stuff.
> when I go to /var/log, I see a bunch of .gz files, can I del those?
> I have logrotate installed, so I am assuming it just wipes the old logs, and 
> backs those up.
> Also, how do I know which logs to read? If I spent all my time reading logs, 
> life would get boring.
> Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield.
> Check out our website:
> http://tysplace.the-leetest.net
> check out my blog:
> livejournal.com/~tylerrl
> [my programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features]
> [failure is not an option, it comes bundled with windows!] 
> 
> 
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Re: logs and which ones to del?

[ace]

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I am guessing that it is safe to remove any logs in the /var/log folder 
manually?  Such as all of the message files, etc.

y
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 09:30:40AM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Yes, the gz files are compressed backups of logs so many days
> back. You can delete them, or logrotate will do that for you after a
> certain number of days (I think the debian default seems to be 4
> weeks).
> 
> As for which log files you should read, don't read any, unless you
> have a specific reason for doing so. If you want to monitor your
> system for break in attempts, or for break ins (shudder), install
> tools like logcheck and/or tripwire.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 07:58:11AM -0800, tyler wrote:
> > Hay,
> > When I go to /var, I se a ton of stuff.
> > when I go to /var/log, I see a bunch of .gz files, can I del those?
> > I have logrotate installed, so I am assuming it just wipes the old logs, and 
> > backs those up.
> > Also, how do I know which logs to read? If I spent all my time reading logs, 
> > life would get boring.
> > Thanks,
> > Tyler Littlefield.
> > Check out our website:
> > http://tysplace.the-leetest.net
> > check out my blog:
> > livejournal.com/~tylerrl
> > [my programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features]
> > [failure is not an option, it comes bundled with windows!] 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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