Comments on: How to Setup and Manage Log Rotation Using Logrotate in Linux

By: Blake

Blake — Mon, 31 May 2021 15:06:06 +0000

Thanks, worked well for me! I just wanted to point out in this line from the article: /var/log/apache2/* { ..if you just use an asterisk * it seems like logrotate will rotate any files, even previously rotated files. To correct this, I had to use *.log.

By: Sarjit Singh

Sarjit Singh — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 05:45:05 +0000

How can I setup logrotate to rotate the logs hourly?
There is no option and minimum frequency is daily.

By: Siva

Siva — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:35:53 +0000

Hi log rotate is not working, please help me.

/opt/var/foo.log {
    copytruncate
    daily
    dateext
    rotate 3
    compress
    missingok
    size 10M
}

It is appending data on same file, now the file size reached 6GB how can I fix it

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 06:30:11 +0000

In reply to Kumar P.

@Kumar

Yes, you can add your own apache website log path in this file..

By: Kumar P

Kumar P — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 05:22:41 +0000

Hello Gabriel A. Cánepa,

Are we allowed to add our own log path of apache2 here ? with new file on /etc/logrotate.d/mylog with my own log path ?