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Teddy_R
Teddy_R

Reputation: 91

Deleting content of "/var/log/sudo-io"

I have a large amount of disk usage in the /var/log/sudo-io directory In the form om "AA, AB, AC..." directories

Can I delete the complete content af this directory ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1757

Answers (1)

Akom
Akom

Reputation: 1641

In the past I have deleted the complete contents without any ill effect.

My current cron job removes old contents a little more carefully:

# Remove files and directories older than 90 days, but not /var/log/sudo-io/ itself:
find /var/log/sudo-io/ -mindepth 1 -mtime +90 -delete

While this type of approach works in most cases, a situation where a script is creating tons of sudo sessions frequently will still fill the disk simply because each session creates a new directory and each directory occupies a certain minimum size (at least with XFS)

Upvotes: 0

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