The logrotate plugin is an Elgg core plugin. So, you won't find it here in the plugin repository. But when you use the latest Elgg release, you have the latest version of the logrotate plugin, too.
Is your weekly cronjob set up and running? If in doubt, you can use the Croncheck plugin to monitor the cronjobs: http://community.elgg.org/plugins/484590/2.0.1/croncheck. After activating the croncheck plugin you will see when the different cronjobs were running last - starting from the time you activated the croncheck plugin, so it could take up to 1 week until you know if the weekly cronjob is running or not. But if you see the other cronjobs with shorter intervals getting executed, it's an indication that the cronjobs are likely to run. If you already see that the 1 minute cronjob is not running, it's quite likely that the weekly cronjob won't run either. Check the crondaemon config then. Are the Elgg cronjobs defined?
You can also execute the weekly cronjob manually by calling http://<yoursite.url/cron/weekly. Then you also see the cronjob output on screen. Though it might take a while for the job to finish if it really hasn't run for months.
The archived logs are not to be found in the logrotate plugin folder. There is only a new table created in your database with the archived log entries (elggsystem_log_<timestamp>). These tables will get removed from the database again if they are older than the time set up in the logrotate plugin settings for keeping of archived logs. Well, actually there seems a bug with deleting the archived log tabled, i.e. they currently won't get removed. But this issue will be fixed in Elgg 1.8.16: https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/issues/5490.
Thanks for the ideas Dhrup. I appreciate the help.
well ;-) u said ' The user in each entry is me ( administrator ). ' !?
and, but.. did that phpmyadmin 'empty' empty the log quickly enuff ?!
that's your triage @now, the practicals - can be figured & fixed @later..
(1 per sec *is highhh! wot r u doinggg ? )
do you also have many log_123456789 named log tables ?
delete all those ;-)
I took the site offline, brought it back online and emptied the log table. The problem seems to have gone away. Very strange indeed.
It comes with the core, just enable twitter and twitter_api in your plugin list
twitter_service was a Elgg 1.7 plugin. In elgg 1.8 is no plugin that offers the same functionality.
Thanks Jeroen. I was coming to that conclusion. I'm now trying to setup the twitter API plugin.The instruction are sparse. I found where to create a twitter APP but I'm a bit unsure what settings to use. But I'll keep searching.
Thanks again.
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