SUMMARY: Housekeeping Logfiles

From: Santosh Rangdal <rangdalss_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat Feb 09 2002 - 09:14:14 EST
Thanks a lot...!!I've got lots of replies.Specialy thanks to Christopher and 
offcourse all who are help me.

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Thanks Again...:-:

_Santosh

>From: "Santosh Rangdal" <rangdalss@hotmail.com>
>To: "Sun Solaris" <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
>Subject: Housekeeping Logfiles
>Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 21:04:40 +0530
>
>Dear Managers,
>
>I'm new to UNIX........
>                     It is has been observed that /var file system will 
>always
>become full as system generate log file on same.
>The files utmp,utmpx,wtmp and wtmpx will always get updated as well as its
>file size. What is the use of these files? and is it possible to compress 
>the
>files and then touch or redirect (>) the file by same name??
>
>Can anybody tell me how to sort the file in ascending order and look for
>greater file sizes. And which are the common log files under /var file 
>system
>for compress or delete??
>
>I really appreciate if some one have good commands, automated scripts or
>commands using SED and AWK tool for checking highest file system size in
>acceding/descending order (pl. tell me using full command line options).
>
>Commit to summarize,
>
>Thanks & Regards,
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