How Do I delete/Clean Syslog?

[minesheep]

To search the source what would be better place to start than logs especially syslog. You can make a copy of your syslog(s) to any location and read it to see whats making it that large. Its just a text file so you can use leafpad on LL4.8 and older and mousepad on LL5.0 (and newer) to open it. It should be safe to remove the compressed logs ending with .gz but I recommended to just move the files so if there is problem they can be moved back to "/var/logs/". If you want to move/delete logs type

Code:

sudo thunar

in terminal. Enter your account password then do whatever you want with your logs but moving them to safe location is safer than just deleting them instantly.