i have 1 question, does pihole delete automatic logs? if not how can I do that
Pi-hole employs log rotation for its own log files, so file size consumption is limited to the amount of data logged within whatever period you've configured. If you stick with the defaults, Pi-hole rotates its logs once a day, at midnight, and keeps logs for the last five days.
Be aware that other components of your system employ logging as well, just as any Linux system would. This especially includes logs generated by lighttpd, the web server Pi-hole uses by default.
For a list of files and locations (including logs) that Pi-hole is using or at least aware of (if not controlling them), refer to
This is our logrotate file:
Pi-Hole rotates logs nightly at midnight via a cron script installed by Pi-Hole.
*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: contents of /etc/cron.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1703 Sep 15 18:12 /etc/cron.d/pihole
...
00 00 * * * root PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole flush once quiet
@reboot root /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/pihole/logrotate
...
The current day and previous day logs are uncompressed, and older logs (up to 5 days) are compressed.
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 916 Nov 15 10:00 pihole-FTL.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 1.7K Nov 15 00:00 pihole-FTL.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 837 Nov 14 00:00 pihole-FTL.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 403 Nov 13 00:00 pihole-FTL.log.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 1.7M Nov 15 10:07 pihole.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 4.0M Nov 15 00:00 pihole.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 283K Nov 14 00:00 pihole.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 307K Nov 13 00:00 pihole.log.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 296K Nov 12 00:00 pihole.log.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 277K Nov 11 00:00 pihole.log.5.gz
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