Garbage collection deleted logs

[Coppermine_secure]

I just noticed that Coppermine has some sort of mechanism for deleting logs, and I am unable to find out how the decisions are made to do so: ??
Are they deleted after a certain amount of time? or when the log file gets to a certain size?

I have been monitoring logs on my site, and after having been away for a week or so, when I got back and logged in, I expected to see a lot of activity, but what
I saw was empty log files and the message:

"Garbage collection deleted logs"

And the previous logs that were there are all absent.

I found one posting on this site that attempted to explain this, but it was no help. Found here (http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=49974.0;prev_next=next)

Anyone here know anything about this?  I tried to find some setting to modify or effect some sort of more control over this action, but I was unable to locate or find any mechanism or action within coppermine to gain any control over the deletion of the log files.  I am still in the dark as to why they were deleted in the first place.

I would like to be able to view the logs before some mechanism deletes them all.  Is there any way to have them emailed to me before they are deleted?

[Αndré]

It's located in include/init.inc.php:

Code Select Expand

if ($CONFIG['log_mode']) {
    spring_cleaning('logs', CPG_DAY * 2, array('log_header.inc.php'));
}

The second parameter defines the time which recognizes a file as 'old' and deletes it. If a log file hasn't updated in the last 2 days, it will be deleted. Either you increase that time or comment out that line if you want to disable garbage collection for log files.

[Coppermine_secure]

Many Thanks.

Could future releases of coppermine allow for this adjustment in the config window?

[Αndré]

Could future releases of coppermine allow for this adjustment in the config window?

Please start a new thread in the feature requests board.