How to use logrotate

settingup_logrotate.md

How to use logrotate

1. logrotate is triggerd by cron /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
2. Create a log rotation conf file in /etc/logrotate.d. All the files in this directory is included in /etc/logrotate.conf
3. Let's add /etc/logrotate.d/collector for example. The contents is as follows:

/var/log/collector/log/*.log {
	daily
	missingok
	rotate 52
	compress
	delaycompress
	notifempty
	sharedscripts
}

1. In order to test the rotation manually, type:

sudo logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf

The logs should be rotated

1. Check status of the log rotation by:

cat /var/lib/logrotate/status