LogRotate setup on Ubuntu

logrotate.sh

Ubuntu LogRotate Install and Setup

# 1-Check updates 
sudo apt-get update

# 2—Install Logrotate
sudo apt-get install logrotate

# 3 — Confirmation
# To verify that logrotate was successfully installed, run this in the command prompt.
logrotate

# Since the logrotate utility is based on configuration files, the above command will 
# not rotate any files and will show you a brief overview of the usage and the switch 
# options available.

# 4—Configure Logrotate
# Configurations and default options for the logrotate utility are present in:
/etc/logrotate.conf

# Some of the important configuration settings are : rotation-interval, log-file-size, rotation-count and compression.

# Application-specific log file information (to override the defaults) are kept at: /etc/logrotate.d/

# 5—Example
# Debian package management system example :  /etc/logrotate.d/dpkg
# /var/log/dpkg.log {
#   monthly
#   rotate 12
#   compress
#   delaycompress
#   missingok
#   notifempty
#   create 644 root root
# }