Linux Logrotation

config options

rotate count

  • rotate n

permission

  • create 0664 USER GROUP

by interval

  • daily
  • weekly
  • monthly
  • yearly

by size

  • size 100k
  • size 100M
  • size 100G

archive

  • compress
  • nocompress

Postrotate

postrotate
    /usr/sbin/apachectl restart > /dev/null
endscript

script

  • prerotate：executed before the log file is rotated
  • postrotate：在做完 logrotate 之後啟動的指令，例如重新啟動 (kill -1 或 kill -HUP) 某個服務;
postrotate
        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}

others

  • missingok：If the log file is missing, go on to the next one without issu-ing an error message