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Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: remus on April 22, 2011, 09:59:17 AM

Title: Do log files get to big
Post by: remus on April 22, 2011, 09:59:17 AM

Hi all,

I've just had a thought, do the log files that linux keeps eventually grow so large that they cause a problem ?

I am wondering how this might effect a tinycore/microcore print or file server.

Title: Re: Do log files get to big
Post by: curaga on April 22, 2011, 11:53:12 AM

busybox syslogd rotates the main log itself. By default it's 200kb and one old log is kept.

Other apps may or may not rotate their logs.

Title: Re: Do log files get to big
Post by: tinypoodle on April 22, 2011, 05:47:28 PM

See also:
http://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate

Title: Re: Do log files get to big
Post by: remus on April 27, 2011, 11:15:42 AM

Thanks to everyones input.

logrotate seems to do the trick