I am using a kvm ubuntu 10.04 virtual machine to test some features of a kernel module. I grep through the /var/log files to observe the kernel messages about that module.To start from a clean state, I remove log files containing older messages by executing rm -rf /var/log/* and then rebooting the virtual machine. However, after I reboot, the new log files still contain those old log messages. It takes about 5-6 cycles of deleting files and rebooting virtual machine to finally get rid of those log file messages.Why is this happening?Is there an easier way to cleanup log files?
Cleaning log files under linux
linux;ubuntu;kernel;logs;syslog