How to clean up old logwatch archive?
Issue
- Noticed that /var was reaching a limited amount of free space and executed the following;
dh@~ /]$ sudo find /var -size +200000 -exec ls -lah {} \;
-rw------- 1 root root 127M Nov 20 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.JKtged8u/http-archive
-rw------- 1 root root 101M Dec 15 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.bzCNYOAS/http-archive
-rw------- 1 root root 128M Dec 3 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.GCxLpBAJ/http-archive
-rw------- 1 root root 126M Nov 25 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.duJB4zWT/http-archive
-rw------- 1 root root 121M Nov 18 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.JfqYEjoR/http-archive
-rw------- 1 root root 136M Dec 10 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.TQ1W0oSY/http-archive
-rw------- 1 root root 102M Dec 5 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.4bNkiOtC/http-archive
-rw------- 1 root root 141M Dec 11 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.wyki8BfU/http-archive
-rw------- 1 root root 131M Dec 4 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.Vu1rC7C5/http-archive
-rw------- 1 root root 124M Nov 19 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.NebxU7Gy/http-archive
-rw------- 1 root root 132M Dec 9 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.g8JybocR/http-archive
-rw------- 1 root root 113M Dec 12 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.2gQUgKHj/http-archive
-rw------- 1 root root 127M Dec 2 04:02 /var/cache/logwatch/logwatch.HQ0zM4o7/http-archive
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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