is it safe to delete the following types of domlogs?

Lauren Raymond

• June 12, 2025 14:40
• Edited

Hi

My server has 53 G of domlogs (/var/log/apache2/domlogs)
/dev/sdb2 is at 90%

WHM > Tweak Settings > Stats and Logs > is set to  "Delete each domain"s access logs after statistics are gathered"

WHM > Statistics Software Configuration the log rotations is set to 25mb

What is strange is that when I go to
cd /var/log/apache2
du
the total MG of the individual log files is way less that the actual total of all of the files.

Is it safe to delete domlogs for a user?

will domlogs recreate themselves?

for example - is it OK to delete the following domlogs?

cd /var/log/apache2

cd domlogs/USERNAME
ls

DOMAIN.com            DOMAIN.com-ssl_log

DOMAIN.com-ssl_log    PARKED_DOMAIN.DOMAIN.com

PARKED_DOMAIN.DOMAIN.com  PARKED_DOMAIN.DOMAIN.com-ssl_log

Thanks for your help
Lauren

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • June 12, 2025 17:49

  Hey hey!  You probably don't want to delete the logs, but you could run an echo statement to empty the file.

  echo "" > /path/to/logfile/you/want/to/clear

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  Lauren Raymond

  • June 12, 2025 19:25

  Thanks cPRex for your great advice and for the echo statement to empty the file.

  The echo statement cleared the first file that I tried

  I will clear out all of the bigger files in
  cd /var/log/apache2
  cd domlogs/USERNAME

  Have a wonderful rest of your day
  Take Care
  Lauren

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • June 12, 2025 20:28

  You as well!

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