Mongodb logrotate on Ubuntu

mongodb

# Put this in /etc/logrotate.d/mongodb
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5004626/mongodb-log-file-growth

/var/log/mongo/*.log {
    daily
    rotate 30
    compress
    dateext
    missingok
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /bin/kill -SIGUSR1 `cat /var/lib/mongo/mongod.lock 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
    endscript
}

on ubuntu 12.04 with mongodb 2.4.3 you should change your path for the logs and lock files :

- /var/log/mongo/*.log {
+ /var/log/mongodb/*.log {

...

-   /bin/kill -SIGUSR1 `cat /var/lib/mongo/mongod.lock 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
+   /bin/kill -SIGUSR1 `cat /var/lib/mongodb/mongod.lock 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true