I recently scanned my hard drive and discovered that the FileZilla server log has ballooned to an astonishing 23GB. I'm wondering if I can safely delete this log file without risking my FileZilla server's operation. Any advice on how to handle this?
3 Answers
You can definitely delete the log file! Just make sure to shut down FileZilla first, rename the log file to something like .BAK, and then restart FileZilla. If everything works fine after that, go ahead and delete the .BAK file. It should create a new log automatically. It might be worth checking the settings to see if you can limit the log size or set it to truncate after a certain number of days.
You can delete it, but it’s more important to figure out why that log is so large in the first place. Is it due to years of data accumulation, or could it be a sign of attacks? Have you been monitoring these logs? If it’s just normal verbose logging from internal activities, that's fine. Otherwise, consider enabling daily log rotation.
Just do log rotation to manage it better moving forward! That way, you won’t run into huge files again.
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