logrotate is a program to rotates logs. This is run daily using cronjob
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/etc/cron.daily/logrotate |
Logrotate config files are stored in
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/etc/logrotate.d/ |
To rotate logs daily, add daily to the logrotate configuration. To keep logs for 5 days, add “rotate 5”.
Rotating a log
To rotate a log
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/var/log/sync-servers.log |
Create file
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vi /etc/logrotate.d/sync-servers |
with content
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/var/log/sync-servers.log { create 640 root adm missingok notifempty rotate 4 weekly } |