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   The Natural Philosopher to All   
   Re: Cleaning up stale logs in Bookworm   
   16 Sep 25 09:34:41   
   
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   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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