Hi Team, In Alfresco 5.0.d , can i delete/remove the following files , it was taking too much of memory in /opt/alfresco/tomcat/logs folder. * manager.2017-*-*.log * localhost_access*_log.2017-*-*.txt * catalina.2017-*-*.log Please let me know ,if i delete those files , i thing it wont affect alfresco to run ? Regards Suhas

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Alfresco tomcat log files deletion

bagodu

Hi Team,

In Alfresco 5.0.d , can i delete/remove the following files , it was taking too much of memory in /opt/alfresco/tomcat/logs folder.

manager.2017-*-*.log
localhost_access*_log.2017-*-*.txt
catalina.2017-*-*.log

Please let me know ,if i delete those files , i thing it wont affect alfresco to run ?

Regards

Suhas

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mehe

Hi Suhas,

you can safely delete these files. They are rotated logs and are no longer accessed by tomcat.

But you should look into your actual log - maybe there is a repeating error that fills up your logfile and should be

Martin

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mehe

Hi Suhas,

you can safely delete these files. They are rotated logs and are no longer accessed by tomcat.

But you should look into your actual log - maybe there is a repeating error that fills up your logfile and should be

Martin

cesarista

Hi, you should rotate your catalina.out too, check this:

Basic maintenaince of your Alfresco logs - Simple tips about Alfresco logs - zylk

Regards.

--C:

mehe

Like Cesar shows in his blog, you can use logrotate also to get rid of older logs. So you don't have to remove them manually (sometimes you don't want to delete last few logs to analyse an error)...

bagodu

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