Linux.com: CLI Magic: Logrotate

“You probably don’t visit /var/log every day, or take care to
ensure its contents–program log files–are safe. Most people see
log files as a record of events: something that has to do with the
past rather than something with an impact on the present or the
future.

“In reality, effective log file management is critical for high
system availability. And you don’t need to host a few websites or
monitor a space craft to care about it. If you’re running a Linux
distribution on your desktop, or managing a network of such
desktops, you need an effective log management policy for
everything from troubleshooting server errors to monitoring how
devices interact with the kernel…”

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