Log files: What's safe to delete?

[Selena]

I have a client that is over quota. It looks like the log files are eating up a lot of disk space. Is it safe to delete them?

Is it safe to delete the entire /tmp folder?

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Selena

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

It's not safe to delete the /tmp directory. Could you elaborate on the specific log files that are taking up space? Also, are you referring to the individual account or the server in general?

Thank you.

 

[Selena]

An individual cPanel account.

Their error_log file, for example, was at 2 GB.

thank you.

 

[vanessa]

You can typically delete log files without an issue. It perhaps might be best to empty them out instead of deleting them - some services get picky about that.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Yes, it's acceptable to delete the error_log within their account if you no longer require that data. You should leave the account's "tmp" directory in-place because it's where the account's statistics are stored.

Thank you.