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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:40:45 -0600
From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] smtpd no longer running?
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> The file was getting
> pretty big, so I deleted it.

i cron a C program^W^Wscript to clean up the logs once a month so they
are kept manageable. i don't care if i miss a few minutes' worth:

cpu% cat /bin/chop
#!/bin/rc

cd /sys/log

for (i in 	\
	aan		\
	auth		\
	cron		\
	chat	\
	cs		\
	dns		\
	fossil	\
	ftp		\
	imap4d	\
	ipboot	\
	listen	\
	mail		\
	nfs		\
	nfsserver	\
	pop3	\
	portmapper	\
	ppp		\
	pptpd	\
	runq		\
	smtp		\
	secstore	\
	smtp.fail	\
	smtpd	\
	ssh		\
	telnet	\
	timesync	\
)
{
	chmod -a $i
	>$i
	chmod +a $i
}