How to stop Guard from creating monstrous space consuming log files

Question

im using Guard and by the time using it i get a monstrous log with 15gb in the following paths:

• /var/log/kern.log.1
• /var/log/syslog.1

By the end of the day i have to delete this files so my machine can work in peace. My question is how to stop guard from creating this log files??

Im using ubuntu linux and running a jekyll server

Answer 1

You could set the settings as described here so that guard only logs on :error with something like in addition you could use only or except to give you nothing actually being created:

logger level: :error,
       only: []

However, as pointed out by fotanus, logrotate is the standard way of dealing with these logfiles and the way I would go about adressing the problem.

There are several different tutorials on how to use this to help manage your logging.