Deleting Log files on ubuntu

[kristian.hermansen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Kristian Hermansen)]

Vinay Perneti wrote:
> I was just browsing through the folders and found that /var/log folder was
> consuming 3.4GB. When i looked into the folder, kern.log.0 and
> messages.log.0 were taking up 1.2GB each.

Ouch!

> Can i delete these log files?

Sure!

> Would i be needing them in the future?

Well, I assume you had a lot of output from your pNFS kernel hackery? 
Maybe you should take a look and see what the messages are.  Maybe it is 
only one message that is being output over and over again repeatedly...
-- 
Kristian Hermansen

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