Subj : Re: Cleaning up stale logs in Bookworm
To   : All
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Tue Sep 16 2025 09:34:41

On 16/09/2025 00:10, druck wrote:
> On 14/09/2025 22:37, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> ˙If you have files building up in /var/log, every month I delete all 
>> the .gz archived logs.˙ This is an example script:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Use logrotate rather than munging your own script, that's what its there 
> for. Otherwise you can guarantee the source of your problem is in the 
> logs you just have just deleted.
> 
> ---druck

+1  Logrotate for 'ordinary' logs and systemd configs for logs that it 
generates

But it seems they were logs so much as cached packages


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