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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: What to do with evergrowing history and log files
Keywords: help
Message-ID: <2001@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 90 20:04:01 GMT
References: <169@metaware.metaware.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <169@metaware.metaware.com> adam@metaware.UUCP (At these prices, I can't NAME names) writes:
|                                                           I hesitate to
| simply delete them from time to time. Is there an accepted method?

  Hesitate no more. I run an expire script daily which renames the logs
and removes any old ones. If you don't use them, why save them? Delete
them completely.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)

"I'm a left-handed vegitarian, and my hobbies are judo and the number three"
                                     Babs Wilcox, _Don't Get Even, Get Odd_