I have a user that wanted logs for his site for the past several weeks. When he downloaded and unzipped the web.1.gz file, there was only stats for the last 7 days. My question is, is this normal, and what does the cobalt use to decide when to delete past logs?

Cobalts don't go off how many days, it goes off how large the files are.

RAQ2, and RAQ3s Rotate the logs whenever they reach 50 Megs, if a log file reaches that limit in one day, it will rotate it at the end of the day.


I imagin the RAQ4s are the same.

I do know they "rotate" the logs, with entails compressing the log file and starting a new one. However, when I uncompress the compressed log archive file only 7 days worth is available....so where'd they go? Or like before, what criteria does the RaQ use to discard old logs?

Try checking /etc/logrotate.conf there you can change some dates. I think that is the master file, if you want to change files for just a site goto /etc/logrotate.d/site# I'm not 100% sure if this is right so make sure you make a backup of what ever you plan to change.