At a customer site, the test and production linux servers for some intranet applications were slowly running out of disk space. The apps themselves were running fine, it was the logfiles generated by the apps that were the issue; logging that came in useful just in case something went wrong, but quickly aged. In one particular case, a catalina.out file was several years old and was 11 gigabytes; 90% of it wasn’t really relevant any longer.
The solution to the problem of wrangling logfiles is probably already installed on your server: it’s logrotate. Chances are logrotate is already configured in your system crontab as a daily task, and chances are it is configured to obey any configuration files found in the /etc/logrotate.d directory. If you find that directory, you are probably good to go.