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Manage the periodic logs
Authored by: rachaeljellicoe on Jul 26, '08 03:59:16PM

Well, I attempted to do the solution #1 but when it came to removing the files it said I wasn't authorized. I am not sure how to use the sudo command. Wikipedia was no help. I tried the su command but don't know the password. I tried my user password and the administrator password and that didn't work. And then I tried to log in as the administrator but could not remember where I told Leopard not to display it. Help!!

Rachael

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Manage the periodic logs
Authored by: jeremyp on Jul 27, '08 09:07:30AM

sudo is easy to use. Just type sudo and then the command you want to run on the same line (as in the example at the top). You will be prompted for a password which is your user account password that you are logged in as. On the standard Mac OSX install, only administrators are allowed to use sudo.

However, don't bother in this instance. My daily.out file is currently 242 Kbytes and that's since March 20. If it gets to 0.5Gb there's something wrong with your system and you'll need daily.out to find out what.



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