# Enormous LOG files

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enormous-log-files/113195>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [August 28, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enormous-log-files/113195 "2007-08-28T16:54:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![dxk3355](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dxk3355](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dxk3355)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enormous-log-files/113195/1 "2007-08-28T16:54:33Z")

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Hi!

I just saw that my development.log file was 450 MB! Anything to do about  
this ? Is there a way to turn on rotating-logs?

Thank you!  
david

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**Author:** ![dxk3355](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dxk3355](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dxk3355)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enormous-log-files/113195/2 "2007-08-28T17:16:38Z")

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You rotate Rails logs just like any other server logs. Most systems  
come with a log rotation program installed. For example, on Redhat  
based systems the command is simply called ‘logrotate’ and it is  
configured via per application configuration files located in  
/etc/logrotate.d.

– Wes

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**Author:** ![dxk3355](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dxk3355](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dxk3355)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enormous-log-files/113195/3 "2007-08-28T17:57:07Z")

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Great tip, thank you Wes!

Wesley M. wrote:

> You rotate Rails logs just like any other server logs. Most systems  
> come with a log rotation program installed. For example, on Redhat  
> based systems the command is simply called ‘logrotate’ and it is  
> configured via per application configuration files located in  
> /etc/logrotate.d.
> 
> – Wes