[LBo] /var/log directory

[Lonnie Mullenix]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 11:17 -0400, Howard Rosen wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Thanks for your input.  I am a retired person now, but I was an
> electronics engineer when I worked.  And as such I tend to know that
> what you don't know can and will hurt you, so I'm not about to delete
> anything until I'm sure about it.  I am running opensuse10.1, and it has
> been pretty good and I bet that it takes care of lots of things on its
> own.
> 
> Howard
<snip>
> > >
> > >Number of Lines
> > >hrosen70 at linux:~> cd /var/log
> > >hrosen70 at linux:/var/log> ll | wc -l
> > ><...snip...>
> > >60
> > >
> > >Number of Characters
> > >hrosen70 at linux:/var/log> ll | wc -m
> > ><...snip...>
> > >4112
> > >hrosen70 at linux:/var/log>
<snip>

I would certainly have to agree, and a 4k file, by today's standards is
Very small.  Other side of that is why having a separate /var is not the
worst idea.  Should you have something decide to run amok, you are not
filling your entire HD with log files.

Lonnie
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