How to automatically purge home assistant log?

[andyfsimon]

I see the discussion has gone a bit awry, but to answer the OP I believe you can fix the size of the log as I discussed here:

2nd Log File Created - "home-assistant.log.1"

Hello, the size of the home-assistant.log file is determined by the “logger” integration. It says in the logs that the default logging level is “warning” when nothing is present in the config, but if you put “logger:” and did not specify the level, it becomes debug. It is a bit hidden but if you scroll down the logger integration documentation page it says so. Excerpts from the docs: The log severity level is warning if the logger integration is not enabled in configuration.yaml . But th…