Automagic Log trimming?

[Andy Bradford]

Thus said Steve on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:06:42 MST:

> Hello, my  /var/log/messages now  weighs in  at a  hefty 35MB  most of
> which is "cron  run complete" messages dating back a  month or so ago.
> Problem is it used to only grow at a rate of 100-200k per day, now due
> to traffic, it's hitting a few MBs per day.

Two of my favorites are:

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html
http://www.smarden.org/socklog/

Both are syslog replacements to some degree.

Andy
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