user575: According to this comment, the debug.log file in the Bitcoin application data directory should be truncated on startup if it is bigger than 10MB. I'm running Bitcoin 0.5.2 on Windows 7 and it does no such thing - the file keeps increasing in size even after restarts, and it is already over 1GB.
Why is it not truncated? Is it safe to stop Bitcoin and truncate the file manually, or delete it completely?

user979: bitcoind 0.5.99-beta was running and my debug.log was 26MB.  After
bitcoind stop
(wait 30 sec. or so for stop)
bitcoind -daemon

debug.log was 201KB.
Mac OS 10.6.7

user575: I went ahead and deleted the file. There don't seem to be any side effects.

575: <p>According to <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8989.msg130821#msg130821">this comment</a>, the debug.log file in the Bitcoin application data directory should be truncated on startup if it is bigger than 10MB. I'm running Bitcoin 0.5.2 on Windows 7 and it does no such thing - the file keeps increasing in size even after restarts, and it is already over 1GB.</p>

<p>Why is it not truncated? Is it safe to stop Bitcoin and truncate the file manually, or delete it completely?</p>
 979: <p>bitcoind 0.5.99-beta was running and my debug.log was 26MB.  After</p>

<pre><code>bitcoind stop
(wait 30 sec. or so for stop)
bitcoind -daemon
</code></pre>

<p>debug.log was 201KB.</p>

<p>Mac OS 10.6.7</p>
 575: <p>I went ahead and deleted the file. There don't seem to be any side effects.</p>
