Delete log's after this pihole don't work any more

[Bat]

Hi,
When you delete the logs in cli like this
find .. -type f -name ".log" -delete
find .. -type f -name "..log" -delete
find .. -type f -name "..log.old" -delete
find .. -type f -name ".log.*" -delete

After that pihole don't work any more because he can't write to the log files any more because he don't find any more.

for solution i have this
pihole -f

Is there a possibility that the devs can make that if no files found , pihole auto create them again?

Thank you

[yubiuser]

Have you tried to restart pihole after you deleted the files manually?

pihole restartdns

[jockesve]

Wild guess here but if it's only checking existence of the file, You could recreate an empty file with 'touch '?

[yubiuser]

The log files are port of logrotate. If you manually delete them, Pi-hole might still expects them to be there to log stuff there.

Touch -> Try it
P.S. Why did you delete the logs at all?

[heis2201]

@Bat

When you delete the logs in cli like this

When you want to flush your logs, just use

pihole flush

[yubiuser]

@Bat

for solution i have this
pihole -f

It's the same

Debugging Options:
  -f, flush           Flush the Pi-hole log

[heis2201]

@yubiuser

@Bat

for solution i have this

pihole -f

It's the same

Why does OP even ask then if he has the solution?
"Surprise my system doesn't work anymore if I delete some files that are expected to be there."

@Bat

Is there a possibility that the devs can make that if no files found , pihole auto create them again?

Don't delete them in the first place!