How to clear the logs properly for a Docker container?
To clear the logs for a Docker container, you can use the logrotate command, which is included in most Linux distributions. Here are the steps:
First, you need to access the logs for the container you want to clear. You can do this using the following command:
```bash
docker logs container_name > logs.txt
```
Replace `container_name` with the name or ID of the container, and `logs.txt` with the name of the file where you want to save the logs.
Once you have saved the logs to a file, you can rotate them using the logrotate command. To do this, create a new configuration file in the /etc/logrotate.d/ directory using your favorite text editor. For example:
```bash
sudo nano /etc/logrotate.d/docker-container-name
```
Replace `docker-container-name` with the name of the container whose logs you want to clear. In the new configuration file, add the following lines:
```bash
/path/to/logs.txt {
missingok
notifempty
size 100M
create 0644 root root
compress
delaycompress
sharedscripts
postrotate
docker exec container_name truncate -s0 /path/to/logs.txt
endscript
}
```
Replace `/path/to/logs.txt` with the path to the log file you saved in step 1, and `container_name` with the name or ID of the container.
This configuration file tells `logrotate` to:
- Ignore missing log files (`missingok`)
- Don't rotate the log file if it's empty (`notifempty`)
- Rotate the log file if it exceeds 100MB in size (`size 100M`)
- Create new log files with permissions of 0644 and owned by root (`create 0644 root root`)
- Compress rotated log files (`compress`)
- Defer compression until the next rotation cycle (`delaycompress`)
- Run the specified script after the log file is rotated (`postrotate`)
- The script truncates the log file to 0 bytes, effectively clearing it (`docker exec container_name truncate -s0 /path/to/logs.txt`)
- End the script block (`endscript`)
Save and close the configuration file.
Before running the rotation, you can test the configuration by running the following command:
```bash
sudo logrotate --verbose /etc/logrotate.d/docker-container-name
```
This will show you what `logrotate` will do, without actually performing any actions.
Once you are satisfied with the configuration, you can run the rotation by using the following command:
```bash
sudo logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/docker-container-name
```
This will force `logrotate` to rotate the logs for the specified container.
Note: The above steps assume that you are running the Docker container on a Linux host. If you are using Docker for Windows or Docker for Mac, the steps may differ. Please consult the Docker documentation for your platform.
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