Empty all the navigation logs

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NethServer Version: 6.10 (Final)

Is it possible to completely empty all the navigation logs?

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Do you mean the lightsquid web proxy reports?

They are located in /var/lightsquid/DATEDIR and could just be deleted or moved away.

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can I delete all the DATEDIR folders?

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Yes. You may move them away first to see if it works but it should. I tested it.

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in the /var/log folder what could I delete?
what is firewall.log-date.gz and ipsec.log-date.gz?

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I meant to delete the datedir folders not the whole lightsquid dir. You have to recreate it.

These logs are managed by logrotate:

http://docs.nethserver.org/projects/nethserver-devel/en/latest/nethserver-base.html#log-retention-and-rotation

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@mrmarkuz

using the command

rm -rf lightsquid

do you have to manually recreate the lightsquid folder?

P.S. after one day the folder was not automatically created, and now where are the navigation logs saved?

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Yes, you have to manually recreate the lightsquid folder, it’s not created automatically.

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and in the meantime, where the navigation logs are saved. if there is no lightsquid folder, are they not saved?

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The reports are created out of the squid log files.
If they are still there you can create the reports by entering lightparser.pl IIRC.

https://docs.nethserver.org/projects/nethserver-devel/en/latest/nethserver-lightsquid.html

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also the /var/log/squid/access.log file must be recreated manually?

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Did you delete it? If yes, it may need to be recreated with correct permissions.

You don’t need to delete the log files manually as they are managed by logrotate.