[Screenshot from 2026-09-09 22-02-42] So far I tried sudo logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf and also added in sudo nano /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog With these values: rotate 4 size 100M compress [Screenshot from 2026-09-09 22-06-56] But the issue still persists. What should I do? I am a noob at…

yeah logrotate -d is only a dry run so it never actually rotates anything. force it once with sudo logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf (or sudo logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog if thats the file you edited). to free space right now you can sudo truncate -s 0 /var/log/syslog.1 or move that file asi…

Var/log/syslog.1 is filling up my disk space

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Forpli September 10, 2026, 3:25am 4

I link you a thread of another user which had a problem with huge logs to show which files you can edit to limit the log size: