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:
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touch /etc/logrotate.d/config_file
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chmod 644 /etc/logrotate.d/config_file
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chown root.root /etc/logrotate.d/config_file
Then edit the file with your required settings.
To ensure your config changes are free of errors, you can run this command:
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logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/config_file
Some things you can do with logrotate are:
- rotate our logs daily, weekly, monthly
- rotate your logs based on file size
- compress log files after rotation
- remove old rotated logs
Logrotate Configuration files
/usr/sbin/logrotate– The logrotate command itself./etc/cron.daily/logrotate– This shell script executes the logrotate command everyday./etc/logrotate.conf– Log rotation configuration for all the log files are specified in this file./etc/logrotate.d– When individual packages are installed on the system, they drop the log rotation configuration information in this directory.