How large should a log file be.

HI

system info
P4 1.8
512ram
4 X 80gig hd
Redhat 8.0
cpanel

this is how my /var/log looks like

drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 25 00:46 ./
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Sep 4 01:13 ../
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 10 06:58 bandwidth/
-rw------- 1 root root 213547 Sep 25 02:05 boot.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1424004 Sep 25 02:28 chkservd.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 819410 Aug 14 10:05 cpanel-install.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27238 Aug 22 04:47 cpupdate.log
-rw------- 1 root root 1546602 Sep 25 02:25 cron
drwx------ 75 root root 4096 Sep 25 02:25 dcpumon/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9146 Sep 25 00:46 dmesg
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 24724615 Sep 25 02:26 exim_mainlog
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 115784 Sep 24 17:24 exim_paniclog
-rw-r----- 1 mailnull mail 1315674 Sep 25 02:25 exim_rejectlog
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 22 04:21 httpd/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53195 Sep 25 00:46 ksyms.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53195 Sep 24 03:02 ksyms.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53195 Sep 18 17:38 ksyms.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53195 Sep 3 20:33 ksyms.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53195 Aug 28 16:37 ksyms.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53195 Aug 27 20:57 ksyms.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53195 Aug 26 12:33 ksyms.6
-r-------- 1 root root 19136220 Sep 25 00:59 lastlog
-rw------- 1 root root 37758926 Sep 25 02:28 maillog
-rw------- 1 root root 207251 Sep 25 02:28 messages
-rw------- 1 root root 5793484 Aug 29 20:12 messages.old <<<< I created it.
-rw------- 1 root root 11098647 Sep 24 03:06 messages.old1 <<<< i created it.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12253 Sep 24 04:02 rpmpkgs
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 23:49 samba/
-rw------- 1 root root 2383408 Sep 25 02:28 secure
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 7 16:04 spooler
drwxr-x--- 2 23 23 4096 Aug 27 2002 squid/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24110 Aug 14 01:08 up2date
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 2002 vbox/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 523008 Sep 25 00:59 wtmp
-rw------- 1 root root 7751530 Sep 25 02:19 xferlog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Sep 23 04:46 xferlog.offset
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Sep 25 02:27 xferlog.offsetftpsep


is this normal?

 

 

 

 

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