How to clear disk space / logs

[Razva]

Hello,

Currently, I have about 50 GB of logs, most of them being used by `mail.info*` and `syslog*`

I am not looking to store more than 90 days of logs. I've `logrotate` but `mail.info` remained at 15G, along with some other logs, which is huge considering that the PMG has very little traffic.

Would it be possible to clear those logs?

Thank you

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Keep in mind that the Tracking center uses /var/log/syslog and rotated variants as source for it's data - so if you want to use the Tracking Center the syslog needs to go as far back as that.

you can configure rsyslog to not write mail.log, mail.info, etc. though that should reduce the usage quite a bit as well.

additionally make sure that logrotation works and that the files get compressed correctly.

 

[Razva]

> so if you want to use the Tracking Center the syslog needs to go as far back as that.

Are there any PMG specific settings that need to be done, or is the Tracking Center just displaying whatever available in the syslog? In this case, I suppose that logrotate is the deciding factor?

> you can configure rsyslog to not write mail.log, mail.info, etc. though that should reduce the usage quite a bit as well.

Can you please point me into the right direction? Is this a PMG setting, or an Debian setting?

> additionally make sure that logrotation works and that the files get compressed correctly.

Logrotate seems to work, but the file size of `syslog` remains large. I had a sudden burst of emails the last week (about 50k), but even so 15G for a logfile is enormous.