I have a client's account where the awtstats log file has grown to over 110 MB. I seem to recall this happening, though rarely, for other accounts of mine in the past (maybe one or two). I had thought I had been able to just delete these, and still have awstats function just fine, but couldn't remember for sure.
I sent in a TT to ask and was told you can't delete this file or awstats will not function properly. But I was still curious and searched the forums and found a couple places where it seemed the advice given was that the file could be deleted, and actually served no purpose at all. Still, I want to make sure it's the correct file, and that deleting it won't cause any harm.
The two posts I found were...
http://support.jodohost.com/showthread.php?t=3656&highlight=awstats+log
... and ...
http://support.jodohost.com/showthread.php?t=2421&highlight=awstats+log
I'm just looking for confirmation on whether the log file located at /domain/awtstats/awstats.log can or cannot actually be deleted without affecting the stats.
Also, does anyone know what causes this, and whether there is any way to prevent the log file from growing so large (other than turning off awstats)?
I sent in a TT to ask and was told you can't delete this file or awstats will not function properly. But I was still curious and searched the forums and found a couple places where it seemed the advice given was that the file could be deleted, and actually served no purpose at all. Still, I want to make sure it's the correct file, and that deleting it won't cause any harm.
The two posts I found were...
http://support.jodohost.com/showthread.php?t=3656&highlight=awstats+log
... and ...
http://support.jodohost.com/showthread.php?t=2421&highlight=awstats+log
I'm just looking for confirmation on whether the log file located at /domain/awtstats/awstats.log can or cannot actually be deleted without affecting the stats.
Also, does anyone know what causes this, and whether there is any way to prevent the log file from growing so large (other than turning off awstats)?