Is it Safe delete old Logs

[Michael.B]

I need to clear up space on my RMQ server,

there are a number of logs in the location /var/log/rabbitmq/

the Logs that i would like to remove are '.sasl.log."date".gz' , 'servername.log-"date"' as one of these files is over 4gb

Using the cmd #rabbitmqctl rotate_logs .1 allows you to remove the currently used log file, however i need to remove all older logs in  the same directoy.

I have previously removed logs from /var/log/rabbitmq/management-access.log/ for logs over a year old and that caused RMQ not to be able to login, until it was restarted. I need to try avoid this happening again.

Any information will be depreciated

[Michael.B]

Any information will be **Appreciated

[Michael Klishin]

RabbitMQ nodes do not use old log files so if you are sure you don't need them,

feel free to delete or archive them.

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MK

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[Michael.B]

Thanks, it was more of a concern as the old logs located in /var/log/rabbitmq/management-access.log/  from last year when deleted caused RMQ to throw some issues and cause login to fail and connections to fail until a restart was done.

Regards
MB

On Friday, 12 August 2016 13:49:00 UTC+1, Michael Klishin wrote:

RabbitMQ nodes do not use old log files so if you are sure you don't need them,

feel free to delete or archive them.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Michael.B <mich...@iris.net> wrote:

I need to clear up space on my RMQ server,

there are a number of logs in the location /var/log/rabbitmq/

the Logs that i would like to remove are '.sasl.log."date".gz' , 'servername.log-"date"' as one of these files is over 4gb

Using the cmd #rabbitmqctl rotate_logs .1 allows you to remove the currently used log file, however i need to remove all older logs in  the same directoy.

I have previously removed logs from /var/log/rabbitmq/management-access.log/ for logs over a year old and that caused RMQ not to be able to login, until it was restarted. I need to try avoid this happening again.

Any information will be depreciated

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[Michael Klishin]

I find it hard to believe that rotated log files are used by RabbitMQ in any way, leave alone

can result in login failures. Most likely you also removed currently opened logs, in particular

the SASL one.

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