From: "Jérôme Pouiller" <j.pouiller@sysmic.fr>
To: ratheesh kannoth <ratheesh.ksz@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: size of /var/log/message file
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:24:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17074087.8aquAEQ0Ka@sagittae> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZFCEFmr-37aafBcMMxHr68bkA-PY6qTHwjLoFN8RvpDNhqGw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 14 March 2012 19:34:48 ratheesh kannoth wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> How to set the size of the file /var/log/message.
>
> I need to set to unlimited . How can i do that ?
Sizes of /var/log files are handled by logrotate command (which is called by
cron). You configure it by tunning /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d.
See also manpage "logrotate" for more information.
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Jérôme Pouiller
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2012-03-14 14:04 size of /var/log/message file ratheesh kannoth
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