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  • Cleaning up stale logs in Bookworm

    From [email protected]@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Sep 14 13:16:33 2025
    Summary: Is there a log-trimming utility in Bookworm?
    Keywords: log cleanup truncate

    Is there some utility that will truncate accumulated log
    file in Bookworm? I set up an 8GB microSD for a Pi2 and
    have ended up using it much longer than expected.

    It might not help, but a housecleaning utility seems like
    a good thing to know about in any case.

    Thanks for reading,

    bob prohaska


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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Sep 16 09:34:41 2025
    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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