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+This directory contains Evennia's log files. The existence of this README.md file is also necessary
+to correctly include the log directory in git (since log files are ignored by git and you can't
+commit an empty directory). 
+
+- `server.log` - log file from the game Server.
+- `portal.log` - log file from Portal proxy (internet facing)
+
+Usually these logs are viewed together with `evennia -l`. They are also rotated every week so as not
+to be too big. Older log names will have a name appended by `_month_date`. 
+ 
+- `lockwarnings.log` - warnings from the lock system.
+- `http_requests.log` - this will generally be empty unless turning on debugging inside the server.
+
+- `channel_<channelname>.log` - these are channel logs for the in-game channels They are also used
+  by the `/history` flag in-game to get the latest message history.