A Full Disk from Log Files

I previously wrote that our MythTV system had filled the hard drive with log files (Fun with a Full Disk). I’ve dealt with this problem a few times, and the cause is typically that we’ve left live TV playing for many hours and the front-end has locked-up. This happened again recently, and I had a thought: use cron to periodically delete the log files. I threw this line into the crontab to delete the logs every day:

3 3 * * * rm -f /var/log/mythtv/*