logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files.
It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be handled
daily,weekly, monthly, or when it grows too large.
File location
/var/lib/logrotate.status Default state file.
/etc/logrotate.conf Configuration options.
# no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
minsize 1M
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}
# sample logrotate configuration file
compress
/var/log/messages {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
/sbin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
