Comments on: How do I rotate log files?

By: felipe1982

felipe1982 — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:01:09 +0000

sorry! Change

postrotate

prerotate

By: felipe1982

felipe1982 — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:50:56 +0000

If I use

sharedscripts
postrotate
do_something
endscript

Isn't this 100% the same as doing

firstaction
do_something
endscript

By: Yogesh

Yogesh — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:22:27 +0000

Try rotatelogs feature of httpd.conf :-)
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/rotatelogs.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:33:01 +0000

@Ela
Its always a good idea to rotate logs according to size instead of age when the logs are too big or too small. Rotating logs according to age favours for moderate logs only.

By: A Mukherjee

A Mukherjee — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:48:00 +0000

Have you tried to install and run BleachBit?

By: Ela

Ela — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:58:55 +0000

Am getting this problem very biggly

Please help me out

vi /etc/logrotate.conf
# see “man logrotate” for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp — we’ll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
minsize 1M
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}

cat /etc/logrotate.d/httpd

/var/log/httpd/*log {
missingok
notifempty
sharedscripts
postrotate
/sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
endscript
}

My server is running nearly 10 sites and all those creating log files under statistics in vhosts.
it wil become more than 30 gb with in week. how to control it. please reply me