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Greg Ricks
Greg Ricks

Reputation: 11

LFTP transfer_log repopulate?

Using LFTP my transfer_log was getting REALLY large and trying to cat transfer_log was taking a really long time. I am hoping to find out that if I remove this transfer_log will it be re-created once LFTP starts running again?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1099

Answers (1)

lav
lav

Reputation: 1481

It's better to truncate the file using :>~/.lftp/transfer_log.

If you just remove the log and an lftp instance has it open, it will grow and occupy disk space until lftp finishes.

BTW, newer lftp versions starting with 4.5.0 have a setting xfer:max-log-size to rotate the transfer_log automatically.

Upvotes: 1

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