log files grow steadily and eventually eat disk space or slow down file operations. set up a routine to archive or trim them on a regular schedule. keep enough history to troubleshoot, but not so much that the drive suffers. a little rotation goes a long way

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Re: keep log files under control
By: pweck to All on Wed Sep 30 2026 17:25:45

log files grow steadily and eventually eat disk space or slow down file operations. set up a routine to archive or trim them on a regular schedule. keep enough history to troubleshoot, but not so much that the drive suffers. a little rotation goes a long way

Synchronet logs everything into one place as standard, but it's easy to separate out the different services into their own logfiles on Linux. I have lots of term, mail, ftp. mail, events, web, services, and then the catchall for everything else. ircd creates its own log since I run it standalone rather as part of services.

Logrotation is easy after that.
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log files grow steadily and eventually eat disk space or slow down file operations. set up a routine to archive or trim them on a regular sched keep enough history to troubleshoot, but not so much that the drive suf a little rotation goes a long way

Synchronet logs everything into one place as standard, but it's easy to separate out the different services into their own logfiles on Linux. I have lots of term, mail, ftp. mail, events, web, services, and then the catchall for everything else. ircd creates its own log since I run it standalone rather as part of services.

Logrotation is easy after that.

sounds like synchronet has a good system - less to think about

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Re: Re: keep log files under control
By: pweck to Nigel Reed on Wed Sep 30 2026 20:06:34

Synchronet logs everything into one place as standard, but it's easy to separate out the different services into their own logfiles on Linux. I have lots of term, mail, ftp. mail, events, web, services, and then the catchall for everything else. ircd creates its own log since I run it standalone rather as part of services.

Logrotation is easy after that.

sounds like synchronet has a good system - less to think about

Well, the splitting I do with rsyslog to create the separate log files from the one log feed but Synchronet makes it easy with how it logs.
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