newbie with SSH, PUTTY

hello

I have maybe been a webmaster now for 6-7 years and I have a dedicated server at the planet, but now I need some space on my hard disc and some of my logs are 10GB and they wont delete those.

How can I delete those, I got the putty software and I know how to log in, but thats it, I tried to read a little about linux comands..., but I dont get it and if I dont dare to do anything.

I got this
root@mydomain local]# du -ch --max-depth=1
4.0K ./bin
4.0K ./etc
4.0K ./games
4.0K ./include
4.0K ./lib
4.0K ./libexec
4.0K ./sbin
52K ./share
4.0K ./src
11G ./urchin <== one to check
401M ./psa
440K ./man
32M ./frontpage
11G total

but shall I do, I tried to type this - du -ch --max-depth=1 - but nothing.

Why shall it be such a pain just to delete some files and why does it have to look like old dos.

 

 

 

 

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