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Title: Clearing the log
Post by: BSD 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.

Title: Re: Clearing the log
Post by: BSD 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.

Title: Re: Clearing the log
Post by: Dan Brown 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.

Title: Re: Clearing the log
Post by: JeffC on April 22, 2003, 06:36:23 PM

From the command line....

# echo > /var/log/messages

will clear the current log.

-jeff