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    From pweck@23:1/1 to All on Wednesday, September 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

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  • From Nigel Reed@23:250/12 to pweck on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 18:32:47
    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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  • From pweck@23:1/1 to Nigel Reed on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 20:06:34
    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

    pweck
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  • From Nigel Reed@23:250/12 to pweck on Wednesday, October 07, 2026 00:53:45
    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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