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How to delete all error_log files on cPanel Servers

Last Updated: 1/07/2015

This article applies to the following services:
  • VPS with a cPanel license
  • Dedicated servers with a cPanel license

From the command line, you can find all occurances along with their size by running the following command.


find /home -type f -name error_log -exec du -sh {} \;

It is probably a good idea to make a note of the large ones and investigate why they are growing so large.

To delete all occurances of the error_log file on the servers, you can run the following command:

find /home -type f -name error_log -delete

You can setup a cron job to run this command nightly or weekly.

30 2 * * * /bin/find /home -type f -name error_log -delete

This will run every night at 2:30 am.

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