Re: size of /var/log/message file

Jérôme Pouiller <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-newbie
Message-ID <17074087.8aquAEQ0Ka@sagittae>
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
Expert Linux embarqué
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