Change 'metar_refresh_rate' in the configuration file to something like 300 (5 minutes) or 900 (15 minutes). There's no need to run every 5 seconds so this will help significantly.
You can configure rsyslog and logrotate to rotate your logfiles when they've hit a certain size. A size directive in /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog might be worth investigating if you're still logging too much and exceeding the normal behavior of logrotate.
Hi Scott,
I've been noticing that the syslog and userlog files under /var/log are constantly growing and filling my SD card.
If I run
tail -f /var/log/syslog
I can watch it building quite rapidly as you can see from the text below for just a few seconds.Here is the config file too so you can see papertrail is set to False
I had one of the log files up to 2.4Gb today before I removed it.
Any ideas on how to stop it getting out of hand?