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Old 26th November 2004, 04:35 PM
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How to Purge System Logs?

Hi:

A Newbie question.

I was wondering how to purge or clean up the system logs in FC3?

Or is there a date setting etc. somewhere for how long to keep the files?

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Old 26th November 2004, 04:46 PM
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You have to configure logrotate (/etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d).
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Old 26th November 2004, 04:50 PM
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You have to configure logrotate (/etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d).

Thank you very much that is what I was looking for.

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