Re: Large mysql files in folder /usr/local/mysql/var (Redhat Linux 8.0 ver)

[K Anderson <freebsduser () comcast net>]

Sudhakar Gummadi wrote:
> I was wondering how I could resolve the issue of the file size growing very large more than 1GB in the following folder 
> /usr/local/mysql/var with the file names as
>
>  IDSsnort-bin.001 ,002 and so on... One of our Snort box running on Linux had used 100%  disk space and crashed.
>
>  Are there any automated scripts which can delete the older file to make space on the hard disk.
>
> Any suggestion really appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> SG
You could create a cron job and shell script to go in and periodicly 
delete stuff depending on your criteria.



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