Forge Server Log over 1GB?

[MiK3gamer]

hi there.

yesterday i got a message from our server admin, and i was like "WTF, are you kidding me? that ridiculous!" ...

he told me that the forge log file on our server (i guess he meant the ForgeModLoader-server-0.log, but i am not sure) way more than 1GB is.

 

i thought it would only save the latest crash report to that log file, so how can it be that huge?

or is the whole console log saved in that file? i've never seen a log file that has a size of more than 1GB ...

i can only guess what's going on, because i dont have FTP access to the server, and obviously he can't simply send me that fie for a minute, would take a few hours to transfer it.

 

sorry that i am short on information. but he is like "as long as the server is still runnning, i dont f*cking care" ... but i am afraid of that unusual file size. but i will ask for FTP access or ask him to upload that file for me, with some luck i can post it on here later ...

do you have an idea what that could be? is it dangerous to have such a huge file? could it overload the server, like causing lags or something?

oh, and by the way ... i dont know if it makes a difference, but we are using the Direwolf20 modpack from the FTB launcher

[luacs1998]

If you have IC2, update.

The older 1.4.7 versions is known for spamming the logs.

[LexManos]

A gig file isnt necessarily bad, yes it logs everything that is printed to the console.

However, if that gig ramps up really quickly because of something spamming the console, or throwing tons of errors, then you should probably fix that.

 

[MiK3gamer]

thanks to both of you

i dont know when direwold last updated the IC2 version of his modpack, but i will suggest our admin to manually update it just to be save.

as i said, i will also alsk for FTP access, so i can find out what kind of spamming is inside.

 

but if its only a console log, i guess it can simply be deleted, right? such a huge file makes it hard to keep doing complete server backups on a regular basis. if possible, i would suggest him to delete it. shouldnt cause any problems, right? but i think at least you have to stop the server to delete the file.

[szure15]

thanks to both of you

i don't know when direwolf last updated the IC2 version of his modpack, but i will suggest our admin to manually update it just to be save.

as i said, i will also ask for FTP access, so i can find out what kind of spamming is inside.

 

but if its only a console log, i guess it can simply be deleted, right? such a huge file makes it hard to keep doing complete server backups on a regular basis. if possible, i would suggest him to delete it. shouldn't cause any problems, right? but i think at least you have to stop the server to delete the file.

Logs can be deleted, but yes u have to stop the server. Try to make a script that deletes logs after the server stops. If u don't add or remove mods it should be fine!

[LexManos]

General practice on most servers is to have a reboot cycle. Every day or two, kill the server, backup the world, clean/store logs and restart.

Each step is important as backups are always good.