[mythtv-users] log files too big

Mario L superm1 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 19 23:05:14 UTC 2005


have you looked to see why your log files are filling up so rapidly,
perhaps what the contents were?

I have the verbosity level of my backend set to none, and my log file
dates back to december - but is still only 533K.

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:50:56 -0500, Mary Strimel <mstrimel at comcast.net> wrote:
> hi,
> I have a smallish root filesystem (7 GB or so), and the mythbackend.log
> files are quickly filling my disk.  I have not installed myth-debug; also,
> when I go through the "setup" there is an option for logging that is
> *unchecked* on my system.  In a moment of haste (or stupidity) I deleted two
> of the largest log files and bolloxed my mythtv completely.
> 
> once I've done reinstalling it, is there some way to safely purge these
> files, or better yet, have them not created in the first place (or created
> somewhere else?)
> 
> thank you,
> Mary
> 
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