I got an idea... [truncate system logs]

[Roman Horník]

Hi Andrew,
I have an idea- why delete system logs when they can just empty? Thus could safely empty non-renewable system logs too.
Just use the command:
# echo "" > /path/to/file.log

These files will have 1B size.

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

Thanks. I agree this is a good solution for active logs---except when the user wants shredding.

[Roman Horník (roman.hornik)]

This cleaning method can be used for ALL system logs, preserves owners, permissions and encoding!

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

Truncate was partially added in BleachBit 0.6.5, but it's not yet exposed in CleanerML.