From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me?= Pouiller Subject: Re: size of /var/log/message file Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:24:34 +0100 Message-ID: <17074087.8aquAEQ0Ka@sagittae> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: ratheesh kannoth Cc: linux-newbie On Wednesday 14 March 2012 19:34:48 ratheesh kannoth wrote: > Hi, >=20 >=20 > How to set the size of the file /var/log/message. >=20 > I need to set to unlimited . How can i do that ? Sizes of /var/log files are handled by logrotate command (which is call= ed by=20 cron). You configure it by tunning /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrota= te.d. See also manpage "logrotate" for more information. --=20 J=E9r=F4me Pouiller Expert Linux embarqu=E9 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs