Do you place any limits on the size of Apache log files - access.log
and error.log
?
Specifically, can you give:
- Reasons to limit log file sizes
- Disk space
- Any other?
- Reasons NOT to limit log file sizes
- Research into performance issues or security breaches
- Any other?
- Methods of doing so
- Cron job that periodically deletes the file, or the first N lines?
- Any other?
- Anything you might salvage before deleting
- For example, grep out how many times a file was downloaded before deleting the access logs
I'd like get the thoughts of experienced sysadmins before I do anything.
(Marking as community wiki since this may be a matter of opinion.)