Due to a problem (see other thread), I noticed that controller.log isn’t rotated. So the current size is >300MB, which seems to be too much for a logfile!?
Is it the normal behaviour, that this logfile doesn’t get rotated or is it just in my installation?
Shouldn’t it be rotated?
Thanks and best regards,
Jochen
Edit: problem already mentioned (but not yet solved) here:
Github
Normally controller log should not be that large. Mine exists since october 2014, the server was online 24/7 and the log is 1,8 MiB in size.
Yeah, mine was that big because of a problem with an empty .pid-file. The error messages every 10 seconds filled up the controller.log.
In the meantime I solved the pid-file problem and now it remains silent in controller.log. So ‘normally’ it shouldn’t be necesssary to rotate controller.log but in a case like mentioned above, when there is an error and it get’s logged, it could be helpful to have rotated logs…
We will look into the issue.
Pretty early adopter of seafile here. Have been running seafile non-stop since pi1 days and I just deleted my log files:
-rw-r–r-- 1 seafile users 923456519 Sep 16 00:44 ccnet.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 seafile users 885583 Sep 16 00:37 controller.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 seafile seafile 67 Aug 25 2014 fileserver.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 seafile users 858 Apr 18 2014 http.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 seafile seafile 0 Feb 1 2014 seaf-fuse.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 seafile seafile 25690 Aug 25 2014 seafdav.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 seafile users 545544728 Sep 16 01:11 seafile.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 seafile users 775 May 11 12:07 seahub.log
-rw-r–r-- 1 seafile users 1658756 Sep 15 22:55 seahub_django_request.log
(sorry I forgot the -h)
-> roughly 1.5 GB(!) of log files. Especially on a raspberry running on an sd-card, this seems problematic.
I have since added a line clearing logs to my seafile server start script but this might not be a good solution for everyone.
Logrotate should be used for every log. Especially on servers, please setup logrotate.
@daniel.pan Please setup logrotate for all seafile logs automatically via deployment script.