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

[mehe · Accepted solution]

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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