cleaning out log files? [top-posting corrected]

[Oliver Iberien]

On Sunday 26 November 2006 10:54, you wrote:
> Check "/etc/newsyslog.conf"
> All log-files you like to have rotated, should be mentioned there.
>
> System owned logs are in there per default.
>
> "du -k /var" will tell you where your space is being "consumed".
> Maybe your "/var/mail/root" is growing...
>
> How big is your /var anyway?
>
> Armin

Thank you! I knew something like that had to exist.

It turns out there was a core dump I had not noticed. I had the idea of 
running ls -SlhR /var/ > /.../var_contents.txt and looking for anything huge. 

Oliver