What are the potential pitfalls of automatically generated log files in PHP?

Automatically generated log files in PHP can quickly fill up disk space if not managed properly. To prevent this issue, it's important to set up log rotation and deletion policies to ensure that log files are regularly archived or deleted to free up space. 

// Example of setting up log rotation in PHP
$logFile = 'logs/mylog.log';
$maxFileSize = 1 * 1024 * 1024; // 1 MB

if (file_exists($logFile) && filesize($logFile) > $maxFileSize) {
    $backupFile = 'logs/mylog_' . date('Y-m-d_H-i-s') . '.log';
    rename($logFile, $backupFile);
    touch($logFile);
}

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