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We have a crawler that persistently crawls our target sites, it’s log files are turning out to be quite huge. Over 1 GB in some cases, I’m not too comfortable with deleting or overwriting them. Any examples of how you managed large log files?
Use a cron script to rotate the log files on a daily basis. Basically, you rename your
logfile.logtologfile-YYYY-MM-DD.log. This way, instead of one huge logfile, you have smaller ones and are able to find logged messages from a certain time period easily. If you also compress your rotated logs, you will save even more disk space.