Manage the periodic logs
September 1, 2008 by wizTEQ Staff
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There has been some discussion here about the periodic maintenance tasks and making them run:
10.4: Reschedule periodic maintenance tasks
A simple shell script to run system maintenance tasks
What hasn’t so far been addressed is the logs themselves. I got very interested in these as I suddenly (under 10.4) couldn’t account for 5GB on my hard disk. It turns out that the primary culprit was the daily.out log file that had simply grown out of all proportions. The periodic logs are never cleaned up, and thus just grow in size each and every time the periodic maintenance tasks are run. For example:
[21:02:...