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Created November 11, 2012 17:11
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Clean kern.log and syslog. I hope.
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log_cleaner.rb
# Clean .log files
# Go to /var/log
Dir.chdir("/var/log")
# Clean log files if size > 20 Mb
File.truncate("kern.log", 0) if File.size("kern.log") > (20 * 1024**2)
File.truncate("syslog", 0) if File.size("syslog") > (20 * 1024**2)
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