Forum Overview :: Biohazard: Code Veronica :: Senor Barborito MetaFilter Post

[quote name="Senor Barborito Metafilter Post"]Not retaining server logs is often viewed as a de facto admission of guilt. It's the default behavior for every major webserver to log all activity and cycle those logfiles when they become too large. They're generally useful for rooting out serious attackers slamming the server with bogus requests, and finding people trying to dodge bans with sock puppets or otherwise dick around with the site. To not have them on hand given the degree to which they are standard operating procedure and also very useful looks very, very suspicious. That having been said, I hope Matt implements a simple weekly cron job/Windows script to clear out any logs older than one month. Doing so creates the illusion of cooperation and enables him to use the excuse that 'they were using too much space' (logfiles gzipped at maximum compression take up virtually no space, in truth, but compressing logfiles as they are rotated out is NOT default behavior). posted by Ryvar at 9:45 AM PST on February 9 [/quote]