Is there a way to purge IP logs stored by Discourse, at least the old ones? If not, do you plan to implement such functionality? Discourse is used by dissident communities in authoritative countries (Russia, Iran etc.) and one of the complains is that storing IPs indefinitely poses a grave risk for…

Well let’s see. Outside the Discourse Docker container we have /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log within that /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/rails 0 Jan 24 23:37 production_errors.log 20 Jan 17 23:36 production_errors.log-20190119.gz 20 Jan 18 23:49 production_errors.l…

Purging old IP logs?

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Falco (Falco) November 6, 2018, 5:13pm 2

Can you be more specific about which logs and where?

I believe we do rotate old nginx automatically

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Purging old IP logs?

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