Administrating the logging directory

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How can you administrate usage of the ros logging dir (~/.ros/log)?

At the moment I suspect its only possible via the warning that roscore gives you on startup and use of rosclean. Is there an automated means of management?

Solution

Cannot set a maximum on the logging space, but as GeniusGeeko mentions below, you can wipe old logs fairly effectively using simple *nix magic. Put the following line in your user .bashrc:

find ~/.ros/log/* -mtime +5 -exec rm -rf {} \;

This will clean out any logs older than 5 days old. Alternatively you can put it in your system startup script (on ubuntu /etc/rc.local), just remember to convert the "~" to an explicit folder name pointing to your logs.