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Article #1176cleaning up files in /var/adm
From: Lucio Chiappetti
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 00:00
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I'm noticing a few files in /var/adm are growing continuosly.
Some of them I know what they are (wtmp, sulog), other I don't know what
they are or I think they are not used in my setup (X0msgs, acct,
fverifylog, or the various files syserr/syserr.*).
My question is :
can I delete some of such files completely ?
can I truncate them (e.g. delete and recreate with a "touch") ?
are there any specific precaution to take ?
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