In alt.os.linux.ubuntu Lawrence Krubner wrote:

> I just turned on verbose logging for our FTP daemon (vsftpd). We are
> saving the log to the default location:

> /var/log/vsftpd.log

> (When I say "verbose mode" I mean log_ftp_protocol is set to yes and
> xferlog_std_format is set to NO)

> How do I control the size of this log? Does it just get bigger and
> bigger and bigger, or does vsftpd take care of managing its size, somehow?

Have a look at logrotate.

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Niklaus