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From: Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com>
Subject: Re: My custom.log is Huge
Date: 27 Jan 2004 11:22:39 -0500
Message-ID: <20040127162238.GA28312@jpradley.jpr.com> 
References: <4016790a$0$32518$626a54ce@news.free.fr> 

Emmanuel Jaeckert typed (on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:43:21PM +0100):
| 
| My custom.log file is becoming very very big (2GB). Now i can't run
| custom anymore ..
| what i did is just renaming custom.log and recreating this one, but i'm
| afraid doing this could lead to break something else in my system (i'm
| just installing this system, so for now i can break what i want :)
| 
| anyone know if i can delete this file.. or do you know how to reduce the
| log size?

Stop running the custom verification out of root's crontab every Sunday
morning, that's what made your file too big.

You probably want to keep the beginning of the file, it has your history
of installations and patches.  You won't be able to load the file in vi,
probably, because of its size.  SO use the 'split command' to get rid of
most of the file.

-- 
JP

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