the only way to stop this logging is to stop webmin for a period of time then restarting, reloading or restart makes no difference. This happens randomly but I am in process of seeing if there is a pattern to it, I had to delete miniserv.error & mail.log as they had used all available disk space, but I took the above examples before deletion.
If I find a pattern to this I’ll update the thread
the disk has normally runs at 70 GB out of 235 GB ram seems fairly static at 6.5 GB out of 16 GB and swap is fairly static at around 35 MB out of 1.9 GB, /var/webmin/minserv.error / var/log/mail.log can use all that space in around 24 hours
EDIT it may have taken a bit longer than 24 hours as I used cat to look at miniserv.error and only scrolled back about 24 hours, got board of looking !
/var/webmin/miniserv.log is tiny in fact it’s 37 MB since 22nd October 2022 so I doubt turning logging off will help. Debug logging is currently off and still the file gets written to, my guess if these entries are not declared in the debug logging set up they are written to the file as a matter of course
I don’t think miniserv.error is not a debug log, its part of logging. Debug is webmin.debug.
I just turnied off logging and did a restart and I still see the error log. Not sure how you can turn it off.
I’m not sure it’s a bug, it merely maybe just be logging by the devs to isolate errors that have not been trapped in some form of error handler so it may give them some clues to un trapped errors and where they are occurring that said some of them are a little tearse
