Log rotation or truncation for spv.log

[fairglu]

What would you like to be added:

A built-in log rotation or truncation for spv.log

Why is this needed:

Just noticed my spv.log (which I had never manually purged, and had been growing for months) was 9 GB in size, as large as the "blocks" directory which contains the defi blockchain

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[shohamc1]

I believe you can simply delete the spv.log file when it becomes too large without having to stop the node - it will simply recreate the file and continue writing to the new empty file.

You can also set up some batch scripts to automatically delete the file once it hits a certain size.

[fairglu]

Thanks, yes I'm already doing that for the debug.log, but had not noticed the spv.log was growing that much as well.

I just thought it could be a nice "quality of life automation" to have some log rotation built into the the wallet, text logs beyond a few hundred MB are quite unwieldy anyway.

[RoMi1981]

If you are on Linux use the standard logrotate configuration like:

cat /etc/logrotate.d/opn01

/opt/defichain/opn01/*.log {
size 5M
rotate 5
compress
notifempty
copytruncate
}

This works here very well. It rotates any log file in the path larger than 5 mb, keeps 5 compressed copies.