Joplin log file growing without limit

[dpoulton]

@johnb0647

For now all I've been able to do is to write a script that will delete the Joplin log file once a week.

In a previous post a user suggested using logrotate on Linux and provided a conf file that "will rotate weekly (and compress) every log file found in /home/user/.config/joplin-desktop/ and keep 4 old files".

Rotate log file

OK, it works (like expected). I’ll use the following file as conf. file for logrotate: /home/user/.config/joplin-desktop/log*.txt { weekly rotate 4 missingok notifempty compress copytruncate } This will rotate weekly (and compress) every log file found in /home/user/.config/joplin-desktop/ and keep 4 old files. Hint: one does not need to restart any service after putting this file into place (/etc/logrotate.d) since logrotate is not a daemon but started via crontab/systemd timer.