How to clean various log files in magento 2

[adnan]

Hi!
I am using centos and cpanel for magento 2.4.2 installation. I noticed that there is huge files in GB’s (red rectangles) in the directory public_htmls/var/log/bak. is there anyone who could guide me how to:

1. Clean the various log files manually using CLI commands for centos. I have seen some sudo commands for that but not working for centos.

2. tell me whats that folder bak for?
   

   
   
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[Andy]

Hi Adnan,
Craig made a video about cleaning log files using logrotate that you can find here :

How to tidy Magento 2 log files using logrotate

As you’d expect with most applications, specific events get logged for a variety of reasons like Security, Maintenance and Development. However, if these log files go unchecked then they can grow so large that your disk drive completely fills up. Watch [How to tidy Magento 2 log files using logrotate - Magento 2 Tutorial] Before using logrotate As you can see from the example below, these are the sizes of my logs in my Sandbox Server (the server I use for testing and creating vid…