clear /var/log/messages

[Andrew Mathews]

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Jim wrote:
| any way of clearing out the file or backing it up once a week so you
| could start with a new log ?
|

This should already be happening.
man logrotate
There should be an entry in /etc/cron.daily/ for logrotate to happen
automatically. Check your /etc/logrotate.conf for the mechanism being
used, such a gzip or actual deletion and retention periods, and
/etc/logrotate.d/ for the specific files it's working with.

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