Hi,
ESXi 3.5, can the below logs be deleted such as rm -f messages.1.gz , or is there a special process
or steps to deleted this logs.
this log directories are getting large and I want to save space before / gets 100% used up.
thanks!
Joe
cd /var/log
w------- 1 root root 164342 Sep 5 16:05 messages
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Sep 5 13:09 vmware
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Sep 5 10:18 .
-rw------- 1 root root 80343 Sep 5 10:18 messages.0.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 52539 Sep 3 21:10 messages.1.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 27356 Sep 3 04:36 messages.2.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 26581 Sep 3 04:36 messages.3.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 26502 Sep 3 04:36 messages.4.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 26616 Sep 3 04:35 messages.5.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 26624 Sep 3 04:35 messages.6.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 26662 Sep 3 04:35 messages.7.gz
/var/log/vmare
rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54286 Sep 5 16:06 hostd-4.log
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Sep 5 13:09 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262168 Sep 5 13:09 hostd-3.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 5 13:09 hostd-index
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Sep 5 10:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262168 Sep 4 22:46 hostd-2.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262168 Sep 4 08:25 hostd-1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262168 Sep 3 18:06 hostd-0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262168 Sep 3 04:36 hostd-7.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262168 Sep 3 04:36 hostd-6.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262168 Sep 3 04:36 hostd-5.log
