Cron
Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. People who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts) to run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals.
Administration
Logrotate
Logrotate is a tool admins use to manage system logs on their Linux servers.
Config files are kept in /etc/logrotate.d/, to add a new file you would want to do the following, changing config_file to a proper name: