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A program for managing and archiving individual log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Jobs can be configured to run hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or when reaching a certain size or age.

For details see the logrotate manpage.

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How can I configure logrotate to copy/SSH apache log files

I'm working on an apache logs analyser, it requires the apache log files to be imported into a directory for processing. I cannot simply point it to the apache logs directory as it imports each file before deleting it. It also has no concept of…
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Logrotate: Using multiple criteria for rotating

How can I set a rotating policy based on a disjunction of size and frequency criteria. I have tried the following: "/var/log/uwsgi/*/*.log" { ... size 400M daily rotate 14 .. } However, even when logrotate is executed when the log file…
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Logrotate: run every N hours

Consider a server which generates extensive logging, which are archived using logrotate and bz2: "/var/log/uwsgi/*/*.log" { copytruncate daily rotate 14 compress delaycompress missingok notifempty compresscmd /bin/bzip2 …
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Ubuntu 22.04: Logrotate not working after upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04

I just realized that since the upgrade to 22.04.1, logrotate is not working. Syslog hasn't been rotated for many days. It's supposed to be run by systemd timers, and the related timer is activated: # systemctl list-timers NEXT …
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How to rotate graphite's logs?

We have the graphite-web package installed, which came with its /etc/logrotate.d/graphite-web. Unfortunately, the "out-of-the-box" file is broken -- the files are rotated, but the daemons writing into them are never notified. Listing the files…
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logrotate seems work incorrect

I'm using: Linux workdesk 3.16.0-31-generic #43~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 10 20:13:38 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty logrotate 3.8.7-1ubuntu1…
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What is the easiest way to setup Log rotation

Recently, I have setup a script that outputs to a single log file... After quite a while this file begins to become too large to manage. I was wondering what the easiest way is to setup log rotations for every few hundred lines located in the…
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rsyslog not write log after logrotate

OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-101-generic x86_64) rsyslog not writing logfile mail.log after logrotate, file mail.log is empty. After restart rsyslog (service rsyslog restart) mail.log starting write. config…
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How does logrotate work?

I am trying to monitor a log file which rotates frequently by logrotate. but i am unable to get that correctly. can any one explain how actually logrotate works? Is a file renamed and a new file is created ? or is a file copied with a new name and…
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Ubuntu stuck at startup after /var/log/ files caused "disk space" error

I started to work with pcie card on my Ubuntu pc. I have noticed that during operation, log files size at /var/log/ is increasing rapidly, especially syslog file (reached 36GB). it filled up with thousands lines of pcie read/write kernel…
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what is the default value in logrotate.conf

In /etc/logrotate.conf is user permission different between Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04 releases? #use the syslog group by default, since this is the owning group #of /var/log/syslog. su root syslog or #use the syslog group by default, since this is the…
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Trouble getting logs to autorotate with logrotate

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Gnome 3.36.8 $ logrotate --version logrotate 3.14.0 It's been impossible to get logs to rotate automatically once they reach a size of 125M. Here's the config file saved to /etc/logrotate.d: /home/App/Logs/*.log { missingok …
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Does logrotate handle wildcards the same as ls?

I'd like to specify the files for logrotate to handle via the following wildcard string: /home/deploy/*/logs/nginx-*.log If I do ls with this wildcard string, it shows exactly the files I want to be rotated. Will logrotate handle the wildcard string…
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