Like most log files, they grow without bopunds and the first task in managing disk space is to use cron to trim these files. That said, a 1Gb logfile is way out of control. How long did it take to grow thayt large? Is it full of repeated messages? Is there a setting in Domino to control the verboseness of this logfile?
In trimming any logfile, you need to look at example contents to determine what is important to save, A logfile trimmer script might scan for certain keywords, extract those entries into an archive and then zero the file length. Or a trimmer might copy the file weekly (daily?) into a series of files and use compress to save space. As the admin, you need to determine how long too keep the files. I prefer to keep a quantity (5 or 10) and trim the logfiles only when they exceed a certain size, say 1 to 5 megs.
For verbose logs that have a lot of generally useless info, scanning and saving the important messages makes more sense. Here's a quick line that works well for syslog.log:
grep -i -e err -e warn -e fail -e alert -e fatal -e crit /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
Bill Hassell, sysadmin
