Unix System Administration Task: Delete Log Files

We routinely delete old log files. Why? Some of them are very large and take up valuable space on the hard drive. These old logs were generated by workstations/servers, web servers, databases, and many other ubiquitous applications.

Note: When I stated old log files, I meant terminated files--not ones with open file handles.

# cd /where_your_logs_are
# find . -name '*.deadlog' -exec rm {} \;