Log file Management Logrotate configuration

1. Download Logrotate

Installation in Fedora and CentOS

Install logrotate crontabs

On Debian and Ubuntu

Install logrotate cron

2. Create a log file

cd/var/log/Touchfilefile. log

3. Create a File.log profile to add

vim/etc/logrotate.d/File

/vsr/log/file.log{
Monthly                log files per month round daily daily weakly yealy
Rotate 5               Stores 5 archived logs, the longest automatic deletion for the sixth archive
Compress               compressing with an archived file in gzip
Mail           address sends dump log files to the specified e-mail addresses
Nocompress              When compression is not required, use this parameter
Copytruncate            for log files that are still open, to back up and truncate the current log
Nocopytruncate          backing up log files but not truncation
Create 644 root root    dump file, creating a new log file with the specified file mode
Size 20M               Specifies that the file will be dumped when it reaches 20M on the same day

The above parameters can be added according to their needs

4. Manually start the Logrotate

LOGROTATE-VF  /etc/logrotate.d/file

Log file Management Logrotate configuration