/var/log/messages

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 02:34:20 +0100
Patrick Dupre wrote:

> I have a /var/log/messages file of size: 74197292
> Is it resonable?

Probably not. Is logrotate turned off or not installed?

Here's my logs:

zooty> ls -l /var/log/messages*
-rw------- 1 root root 289231 Mar  6 19:59 /var/log/messages
-rw------- 1 root root 909108 Feb  9 21:54 /var/log/messages-20140210
-rw------- 1 root root 676609 Feb 16 04:03 /var/log/messages-20140216
-rw------- 1 root root 450818 Feb 24 04:03 /var/log/messages-20140224
-rw------- 1 root root 232045 Mar  2 04:04 /var/log/messages-20140302