Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

["Bob S." <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 02 October 2003 00:39, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:28:48 -0400
>
> "Bob S." <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Trying to figure out how to make it startup at  boot time. Looked
> > through Yast but nothing was obvious to me.
>
> Use the run level editor in YaST.
>
> > While we are on the subject, does anyone have any favorite scripts,
> > suggestions, other than getting rid of all of the old (huge) log
> > files?(assuming I get it running of course  :-)
>
> Huh, that is what logrotate is for. Please refer to its manpage for
> the syntax of the config files (/etc/logrotate.conf and
> /etc/logrotate.d/*).

OK, Thanks for replying. I have reviewed the man page and while 
informative, is not very explicit. Evidently I should have made myself 
a little clearer. Specifically, I have over 6 months of wtemp-(date) 
in /var/log  I would like to get rid of other than by going in and 
doing it manually. I also have 3 sets of Xfree86 logs, and their 
backups, .0.log, .1.log, and .99.0.log dating back to July. I was 
asking how other list members handled this in a cron job.

Any help would certainly be appreciated.

Bob s.