Re: [Firestarter-user] Firestarter 1.0 preview build 2

[Colin J T. <co...@g6...>]

On Tuesday 31 Aug 2004 11:34, Tomas Junnonen wrote:
> Colin J Thomson wrote:
> > A question/suggestion, where is all the data stored for the "events" I
> > cant find it,  during my tests that file? has grown quite large,
> > perhaps an extra option to delete the contents would be nice or is that
> > a bad idea..
>
> Usually it's /var/log/messages. This depends on the distro, as it's
> the kernel log daemon that logs there. Unfortunately it's not possible
> to redirect this to another file or change the file contents from
> Firestarter.

Ok, 
yes the messages where indeed in  /var/log/messages

> Force a rotate, clearing out the list, by issuing
>     /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf

Good tip, that cleared it up nicely,

Cheers,

Colin
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