Content Management and Capture

Hi everyone, I have a CM running in my host.

The log file  ICMSERVER.LOG is using all the space (18Gb). Do you know if the log can be cleaned up ?[/home/icmadmin] ls -ltr
total 37509912
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     system          256 Feb 18 2022  lost+found
-rwx------    1 icmadmin staff           686 Apr 20 2022  .profile
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     system   19205063842 Mar 11 17:46 ICMSERVER.LOG

Hi Claudio,

Typically this file only grows large with tracing is turned on for the LS or when the server is getting lots of errors.  You should check to make sure LS trace is not to a higher level than is needed.  Typically in a production system, this would be error level. 

If there are lots of errors being written to the file, you probably want to check on why the errors are happening and address the underlying problem.  Otherwise the file will continue to grow.

If the information in the file is not needed for debugging or diagnostics, it can be deleted.  CM itself does not require the information in the file unless a case is opened for a problem...

Hello Claudio,

as you are on Linux / Unix you should not just delete the file, because the application still continues to write data into this iNode but you cannot see the filename anymore. If you simply want to cleanup the file, you should either configure a new File for Library Server logging in the Sysadmin Client and delete the old one afterwards, or just empty it like this "echo 0 > ICMSERVER.LOG". The 2nd way simply writes a 0 into the file and deletes the complete content written to the file before.

best regards 
Frank