# Lack of Log Rotation Configuration in Ghost Server Can Eventually Consume All Disk Space

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/lack-of-log-rotation-configuration-in-ghost-server-can-eventually-consume-all-disk-space/20618>\
**Category:** Using Ghost\
**Created:** [March 8, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/lack-of-log-rotation-configuration-in-ghost-server-can-eventually-consume-all-disk-space/20618 "2021-03-08T15:25:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/lack-of-log-rotation-configuration-in-ghost-server-can-eventually-consume-all-disk-space/20618/4 "2021-03-08T18:18:54Z")

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@Hannah

Looking further at the other report of this issue:

> [@Production log file size](https://forum.ghost.org/t/production-log-file-size/17858/3):
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> this is the date in the first line of the file time":"2020-06-03T00:00:15.288Z I have not changed anything in the server, definitely not from this date on, theoretically everything should be configured the same way as when I started, I have not changed much in the server except something in terms of firewall and security I’m not sure if I should check the logorate tool, but the content looks correct: # see "man logrotate" for details # rotate log files weekly weekly # use the syslog group by…

> [@Production log file size](https://forum.ghost.org/t/production-log-file-size/17858/3):
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> this is the date in the first line of the file `time":"2020-06-03T00:00:15.288Z`

Now this is interesting. We have almost the exact same date (maybe I just updated a day later). Seems like an oddly strange coincidence, doesn’t it? Within a day of each other in June almost a year ago:

“time”:“2020-06-04T00:01:11.425Z”

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