Logrotation is available in most Linux distros. If they are missing, you can easily install them. The logrotation main configuration file is located in /etc/logrotate.conf which is the default setting. The config file contains an include statement that pulls in other log configurations located in the /etc/logrotate.d/ directory. When setting up a log rotation, it’s best to add your log rotation configuration in this directory.
Here’s a simple configuration in a file called webmon.
/home/ubuntu/webmon.log { daily create 0640 ubuntu ubuntu dateext rotate 7 nocompress } |
The options above does the following:
- The logs are rotated daily.
- The logs are rotated 7 times with no compression.
- The rotate log files will have dates appended to them.
- The log files are owned user ubuntu with permission of 0640.
There are more options from the logrotate man pages which can be added.