Question Limiting logs to 30 days

[Maris]

Hello, how do i set a lifetime for all access logs? Like http, nginx etc. Let's say I would like to hold no more than 30 days of logs in my server and do not archive anything past that. So my server do not hold any log info for what happened before 30 days.
Thanks

 

[Brujo]

If you talk about the logs of your hosted domains, for example like this: Plesk Panel > Service Plans > Logs & Statistics > Log rotation & Maximum number of log files

see also: Log Rotation

 

[Maris]

Does it include apache logs or just Plesk admin panel access logs? In my case - i need apache http access logs that register every single web-page request.

 

[Brujo]

Well my example was for the domain logfiles under

/var/www/vhosts/system/*/logs

and as in the link above documented also for individual domains. If this is not what you talk about please specify which logfile you mean.

 

[Maris]

Yep the same one, though despite that i have set Log Rotation monthly, max no of log files = 3, compress log files, there's full of archived log files, god knows kept for how long.. what i want is to see only past 30 days logs, nothing more, no archives from previous year, no nothing, pure past 30 days and that's all

 

[Brujo]

Are you saying your logs are not rotated / deleted, sounds like a known issue and documented in the knowledgebase Logs are not being rotated for domain

See also: How to manage log rotation for a domain in Plesk & How to change log rotation settings for all domains at once?

 

[Maris]

logs themselves might get rotated, though those archives - those are from ancient times

 

[Brujo]

Well if you like to get this very old archives deleted you can do this on cmd line for example like:

# find old archive logs older than 180 days
find /var/www/vhosts/system/*/logs/*.gz -mtime +180

# find and delete them
find /var/www/vhosts/system/*/logs/*.gz -mtime +180  -exec rm {} \;

 

[Maris]

and that can be created as scheduled task from within Plesk's scheduler?

 

[Maris]

Oh, super cool! You saved my day! Thank you so much! ))

 

[Brujo]

sure you can do it via cronjob as a "housekeeper" script