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Clearing the log

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Clearing the log
« on: April 15, 2003, 02:31:16 AM »
Does anyone know how I would go about clearing the log messages from server manager. Is there away it is important that I find away thanks.
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Re: Clearing the log
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2003, 12:38:06 AM »
guess either no one knows or to busy to reply but I need to know how so if anyone knows please help me thx.
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Dan Brown

Re: Clearing the log
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2003, 12:42:50 AM »
The answer is that you don't.  The system rotates the logs weekly, and only keeps the last 4 weeks, IIRC.
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JeffC

Re: Clearing the log
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2003, 06:36:23 PM »
From the command line....

# echo > /var/log/messages

will clear the current log.

-jeff
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