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How to use logrotate
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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
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