large log files

[sygram]

Hi there,

i have noticed that in few websites the log folder is 2.6G . Most of web.log files are larger than 250MB. Is there a way to limit the level of logging ? I believe this will effect stats right ? What is the common practice ?

Regards,

Leon

[falko]

You can delete old, unused log files to free space.

[make-fun]

If you wanna keep older logs and they are not compressed — like on many Ubuntu 8.04 — you can run this script.

I just call it from cron, every 2nd of the month and save the output in a logfile.

#!/bin/sh
# Compressing all log files in User Web
# Script takes Month as parameter
# like: ./compressLogs.sh 01

for i in  `find /var/www/web*/log/20*/$1/*.log`
do
echo "
"
echo "Filesize:         "  `du -h $i`
echo "Compressing File..."
gzip $i
newFile=$i.gz
echo "New Filesize:             "  `du -h $newFile`
echo "__________________________________________________________________________"
done

Adjust it to YOUR needs!

Cheers