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#26163 Security exceptions log

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Latest post by on Friday, 21 October 2016 17:20 CDT

Monday, 19 September 2016 23:02 CDT

hkeyzer

Hi,

As my log table for security exceptions was getting too large, I set the max number of logs as 5000 in the admin tools plugin config.

I understand that the logs will be deleted at 100 per time. How often will this happen so I can estimate a time frame to when the log records will be at an acceptable level.

I want to decide if it is better / quicker to simply empty the security exceptions table.

Thanks

Tuesday, 20 September 2016 01:25 CDT

nicholas

The code to delete old records is executed on each page load, after all other Admin Tools features have run. In practice, this means that 100 old records are deleted every time someone accesses your site, they don't raise a security exception and the page is not served from the Joomla cache.

If you know how to truncate the table using phpMyAdmin it is, of course, the fastest way to do it. We haven't documented this option since it's a bit over the head of many of our users and we don't want to confuse them. So, answering your question, yes, truncating the table would be faster and wouldn't cause any functional problems.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Tuesday, 20 September 2016 17:55 CDT

hkeyzer

Great thanks for the clear answer that helps, and I am able to reduce many of the DB sizes.

Friday, 21 October 2016 17:20 CDT

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Edited by on 2016-10-21 17:20 CDT

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