Thanks. While I was posting this I was in the middle of a very stressful mess with one of my nodes. I'll tell you about it sometime. It started when I compacted my database. I had no access to any sats for about four hours. I posted and zapped you with the little I had in an Orange Pill app! I learned a few major lessons today. Luckily it all worked out in the end.  I need a beer and a nap. 

siggy47

lightning

LND Privacy Tip (I think)?

I don't know exactly the technical details, but just thinking about how a channel state works and the HTLCs, if you delete some pertinent data from history, it might be affecting the channel state. So that could trigger a force closure.

The channel state  is like a private ledger between you and your peer (only), that is not broadcast yet. So any deletion in that ledger must affect the balances and trigger the penalty tx.

So I would be more caution with this stuff.

Deleting logs - perfectly fine. I always use that line in lnd.conf.
Compacting database - good practice also

btw if you really want a "no trace" LN node, just use a disposable LN node (like Rizful).
Use it, make your shit as you wish for a certain time and then dump it / forget it.