[09:22] <rmg51> Morning
[10:48] <JonathanD> Hi
[12:09] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples, dogs, turkeys and everything else
[14:38] <ChinnoDog> mooorning
[16:49] <ChinnoDog> My /var/log is 9.2gb. What do I do about that?
[16:55] <jedijf> get rid of all the tar'd up old never gonna look at stuff
[16:55] <jedijf> that's called a log jam
[16:58] <jedijf> or start reading?
[16:58] <ChinnoDog> Is there an easier way to do that than going through every item?
[16:58] <ChinnoDog> haha
[16:59] <ChinnoDog> Reading 9.2gb of text files could take the rest of my life.
[17:23] <square-r00t> cd /var/log;rm -f *.gz *.[0-9];for i in `find /var/log/ -maxdepth 1 -type f`;do cat /dev/null > $i;done
[17:23] <jedijf> ChinnoDog: one liner practice - use ls -lt first - when it works - use rm
[17:23] <square-r00t> removes all your old logs and truncates all your current ones
[17:23] <jedijf> square-r00t: NO
[17:23] <jedijf> dude
[17:23] <jedijf> jesus
[17:24] <jedijf> fish vs give
[17:24] <square-r00t> i know. i just like showing off my one-liners. :/
[17:25] <jedijf> in the future let them try - then everyone can show results - the beauty is many ways to accomplish tasks
[17:25] <square-r00t> well, i was also flying blind; i mean that pretty much wipes out everything in /var/log to a fresh slate so i have no idea if he wants to keep anything
[17:26] <jedijf> i would've used [2-9]
[17:26] <square-r00t> hell, he can strip the -maxdepth 1 even and he'll get a totally pristine /var/log recursively, but meh
[17:26] <jedijf> lol
[17:26] <square-r00t> yeah, not everyone likes keeping logs. hehe
[17:27] <square-r00t> hell, for my personal boxes i just have journald logging to memory
[17:27] <square-r00t> but i have a syslog backup
[17:28] <pleia2> was tempting to use logstash on my personal servers, you know, for fun, in my free time
[17:28] <pleia2> because logstash is cool
[17:29] <square-r00t> i probably wouldn't bother unless i had a dedicated box for it
[17:30] <pleia2> well yes, logstash itself would run somewhere churning through it all
[17:40] <ChinnoDog> Closer examination showed that nearly all of it was my php5-fpm.log which I had set logging level to debug.. oops
[17:40] <TheLordOfTime> ChinnoDog, yeah, don't use debug log level :P
[17:41] <TheLordOfTime> unless you're debugging a problem
[17:41] <TheLordOfTime> php 101
[17:41] <ChinnoDog> I /was/ debugging a problem... a long time ago
[17:42] <TheLordOfTime> and forgot to turn it off :P
[17:42] <TheLordOfTime> that explains the massive logs though
[17:55] <steven_> any graphic designers here--working with commercial printers?