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Alfresco tomcat log files deletion

bagodu — Thu, 25 May 2017 09:37:08 GMT

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-*-*.loglocalhost_access*_log.2017-*-*.txtcatalina.2017-*-*.logPlease let me know ,if i delete those files , i thing it wont affect alfresco to run ?

Re: Alfresco tomcat log files deletion

mehe — Thu, 25 May 2017 09:48:09 GMT

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

Re: Alfresco tomcat log files deletion

cesarista — Thu, 25 May 2017 11:02:43 GMT

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

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

Regards.

--C:

Re: Alfresco tomcat log files deletion

mehe — Thu, 25 May 2017 11:52:38 GMT

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)...

Re: Alfresco tomcat log files deletion

bagodu — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:11:09 GMT

Issue was resolved , working successfully