{"id":6244,"date":"2018-04-07T09:26:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T14:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/?post_type=epkb_post_type_1&#038;p=6244"},"modified":"2018-04-07T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T14:28:15","slug":"how-to-solve-you-have-old-files-in-your-logwatch-tmpdir-var-cache-logwatch","status":"publish","type":"epkb_post_type_1","link":"https:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/knowledge-base\/how-to-solve-you-have-old-files-in-your-logwatch-tmpdir-var-cache-logwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"How to solve You have old files in your logwatch tmpdir (\/var\/cache\/logwatch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Edit<strong><em>\u00a0\/etc\/logwatch\/conf\/logwatch.conf<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>and override the\u00a0<strong>TmpDir<\/strong>\u00a0value by changing the default temp directory to\u00a0<strong>\/tmp<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<strong>\/var\/cache\/logwatch<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\/tmp<\/strong>\u00a0automatically gets\u00a0<strong>trimmed\u00a0<\/strong>by most Linux distributions meaning that there won&#8217;t be a built up of old log files.<\/li>\n<li>Now delete the old files in\u00a0<strong>\/var\/cache\/logwatch\u00a0<\/strong>using the command below:\n<div id=\"highlight-1\">\n<div class=\"highlight_div\">\n<pre class=\"php\">rm -rf \/var\/cache\/logwatch\/*<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edit\u00a0\/etc\/logwatch\/conf\/logwatch.conf\u00a0and override the\u00a0TmpDir\u00a0value by changing the default temp directory to\u00a0\/tmp\u00a0from\u00a0\/var\/cache\/logwatch \/tmp\u00a0automatically gets\u00a0trimmed\u00a0by most Linux distributions meaning that there won&#8217;t be a built up of old log files. 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