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Flush the pihole logs
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shell.sh
pi@pi-hole2:~ $ ls -lasrt /var/log |tail -10
76 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 70204 Sep 29 06:25 syslog.1
12152 -rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 12441230 Sep 30 00:00 pihole.log.1
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 559 Sep 30 00:00 pihole-FTL.log.1
4 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Sep 30 00:00 .
1160 -rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 1180366 Sep 30 02:16 pihole.log
80 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 75936 Sep 30 02:16 daemon.log
84 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 80478 Sep 30 02:17 auth.log
8 -rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 6392 Sep 30 02:18 pihole-FTL.log
108 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 106342 Sep 30 02:18 syslog
52 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 50172 Sep 30 02:18 messages
pi@pi-hole2:~ $ pihole flush
[✓] Restarting DNS server
[✓] Flushed /var/log/pihole.log
[✓] Deleted 34647 queries from database
pi@pi-hole2:~ $ ls -lasrt /var/log |tail -10
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 213 Sep 30 00:00 pihole-FTL.log.2.gz
1156 -rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 1180366 Sep 30 02:48 pihole.log.1
8 -rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 6547 Sep 30 02:48 pihole-FTL.log.1
4 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Sep 30 02:48 .
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 0 Sep 30 02:48 pihole.log
84 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 79322 Sep 30 02:48 daemon.log
88 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 83779 Sep 30 02:48 auth.log
8 -rw-r--r-- 1 pihole pihole 4346 Sep 30 02:48 pihole-FTL.log
748 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 760842 Sep 30 02:48 syslog
692 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 700651 Sep 30 02:48 messages
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