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Prashanth Waugh
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syslog

hello friends
on my system /var is full. then i search the for big (size) directory and file.it is found that /var/adm/syslog/history directory is big in size.it contains the files which is having .log extension.so can i emty it.
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Mridul Shrivastava
Honored Contributor

Re: syslog

I have checked our systems running 11.11 & 11.23 and none of them have any direcotries under /var/adm/syslog

So I understand someone has copied some data and that's upto you if you want to remove it.. however it has no resemblance with system logs...
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Prashanth Waugh
Esteemed Contributor

Re: syslog

thanks mrudal i tthink u r correct.i never seen history directory under /var/adm/syslog. there may be the possibilty someone copies the log files under history.
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Prashanth Waugh
Esteemed Contributor

Re: syslog

thanks for ur co-operation
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