The log files are useful for diagnosing problems. Keep them under /var/log/couchdb which the init script takes care of. I would also recommend rotating them so they don't get so big. Check the /etc/logrotate.d/couchdb script which is provided with CouchDB. The README also mentions this.
On 8 Jan 2010, at 17:58, Zachary Zolton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, but don't. Why would you do that? > > Sheer ignorance—I'm just trying to figure out how to improve my > CouchDB configuration. (^_^) > > What happened was I was rotating the couch.log file, but I forgot > about the stdout file, which eventually filled up my partition. > (Doh...!) When I logged in found the stdout file full of request, > which already seemed to be recorded by the couch.log file, so I wasn't > sure if the stdout file was useful. (I know: disk space costs approach > zero as time goes to infinity, so I shouldn't worry about storing > stuff redundantly!) > > So, I guess I should be asking you about purpose of the stdout/stderr > files in order to figure out the best practice. > > Am I still making sense? My silly thread has grow so long now... (^_-)
