It is time once again to delve deep into the soul of your Linux system, to grasp its subtle mysteries, and to maybe, just maybe, catch a cracker before he does damage.
Log files can get pretty large.
An active server is a talkative one, and talk from your Linux system means log entries. Lots of log entries. Over the years, I've seen log files grow unchecked until the system crashes for lack of disk space. Sure, now that we all have 40GB drives on our PCs, it's not as bad, but a mess is a mess and needs cleaning from time to time. Well, the logfile trimming part is true, and somewhere along the way, it occurred to me that not everybody has logrotate on their system.