You can do a simple find based on age: find $HOME/.purple/logs -name *.txt -cmin +3600 --delete
That would delete any log file that was changed over an hour ago On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:16 AM, James . <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Daniel Atallah<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:15 AM, James .<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Does pidgin automatically delete logs that are too large (say > 4mb)? > >> This would be a handy feature (and msn does this too). > >> > > > > There is no way to do this automatically within Pidgin. > > > > A plugin could do this, but it isn't particularly likely that you'll > > get large log files with the way that logging works (you get a new > > file for each conversation). In several years of logging, I don't > > have any files that are larger than 4 megabytes. > > > > -D > > > > Oh, okay. But then the problem still remains, does pidgin delete logs > at all? Here's the issue: I want to keep my logs from taking up > infinite amounts of space, but at the same time, i dont want to delete > them all in 1 go when they get too large, but rather, the oldest ones > first. Is that possible? > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support >
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