What directories I should look to delete log files?

[isonlyme]

Hi pros

I know theres a lot of log files on my hp-ux 10.20 that i should delete cause of disk space problems but is the a list of directories where log are located so i can delete them? I saw a document of a thread that has it but i cant find it...

any help will be very very appreciated...


thanks

 

[KenCunningham]

If you know the file extension of the logs, you can (from / ):

find . -name '*.log'

where *.log should be replaced by whatever your filename format is. This will provide a list of files and their locations and you can prune as required, possibly using find with the -mtime option to delete files older than a particular age. If you know that you're having space problems in one particular filesystem, cd to that filesystem before doing your find to make it quicker. Does this help?

 

[cgainey]

isonlyme,

I'm in agreement with Ken on identifying the file system that is having space problems and working from there. I'm not aware if there is a specific list of logs that should be removed but I can advise, based on your /var space allocation, to do cleanup in that area.

Do a man on the 'cleanup' utility (/usr/sbin/cleanup). This utility will help to reclaim space in /var by cleaing up the SD logfiles and removing superceded patches. I haven't used 10.20 in quite a few years but I do recall there being a -F (force) option that is not an option in the 11.11 version of HP-UX, at least I don't see it on the man page. Be careful with the -F option in 10.20 when reclaiming space in /var because you will not be able to back out patches if this option is used. Hope this helps as well.


~asante,<cag>

 

[isonlyme]

thanks both very much for the help!! now i have a starting point