Questions tagged [logrotate]
logrotate is a program which is scheduled (usually nightly or weekly) to archive log files by renaming them with a suffix so that the applications writing the log files start writing to new (empty) files.
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Using maxage in conjuction with rotate in logrotate?
I've read these blogs about maxage and rotate when used in conjunction and I'm still confused about it.
https://www.clearos.com/clearfoundation/social/community/silly-question-re-logrotate-and-rotate-...
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When wildcard is used in logs directory, what does the size tell? The size of 1 log or the total size of all the logs?
https://www.keycdn.com/support/logrotate#maxsize
This limits each log file's size to the specified number of bytes
/var/log/nginx/*.log
{
size 50G
}
Does the 50G size here means the size of all the ...
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Logrotate --debug is pulling status from alternate locations
Here is my config file:
/path/to/somelog.log {
daily
copytruncate
compress
delaycompress
nocreate
missingok
rotate 7
dateext
dateyesterday
dateformat _%Y-%m-%d-%...
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How to automatically change the name of a file on a daily basis
I am new to Linux/CentOS and right now I am running into a little problem.
My CentOS7 Server logs all Maillogs on a daily basis and moves them to the folder /var/log/old_maillogs. Right now the logs ...
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auth.log file in bullseye os
I have debian gnu/linux 11 (bullseye), in which the /var/log/auth.log file only contains log of current boot and not any previous boots, I need it to store the logs of previous boot for verifying the ...
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logrotate not as expected
I have a logrotate service configured as below running on a user systemd timer.
The issue is that the target of the rotate is allowed to grow beyond the size specified in the logrotate.conf, and that ...
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Move compressed log files outside /var/log [logrotate with log2ram]
I am looking for advice about logrotate.
I have recently installed log2ram to spare my ssd. Since I was not using all 24Gb RAM I assigned 2Gb to /var/log/. currently +- 300Mb is used.
I would like ...
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List of systems that are sensitive to file permissions
I ran into an issue on my NAS where I mistakenly reset the permissions on the root file tree to 664.
This ended up disrupting many of the NAS functions, like ssh and, after much debugging, logrotate.
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Linux logrotate
I have on my server more file rotate, but when I want to compress it, i Have an extension 1.gz, but I just want .gz
These files are automatically rotate by the application:
server.log.2023-03-16
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log rotation improper
I have a log rotation script for audit.log as below, where I found as per the script, instead of rotating of log for every 512MB, it is rotating every 1 hour exactly, however, the 8 log files are ...
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How to delete old log files with logrotate
In my CentOS, there is a Logstash, which generate many log files. Here is how the log files look like:
logstash-2023-03-09.log logstash-2023-03-20.log logstash-deprecation-2023-03-...
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How many times will postrotate run when defining logrotate for multiple directories?
I have the below configuration for rotating the DB backups. The /var/mysql_backup/data/ contains two subdirectories db1 and db2.
/var/mysql_backup/data/*/db.sql.gz {
daily
rotate 7
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How do I set permissions of compressed log files using Logrotate's "create" config option?
My client can't access the compressed logfiles because of their set permission. I was expecting that Logrotate's "create" config option would solve this by setting the compressed output ...
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Discrepancy between size of log file and space reported by df on CentOS 6.6
I have a log file on a CentOS system that is taking up 700MB of space (seen using ls), but when I run the df -h command, it shows that only 200MB of space is being used on the file system (ext4).
What ...
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Is this an efficient way to rotate log files for vmware-vmsvc and vmware-vmsvc -root on a specfic server?
I seem to have a lot of large log files called vmware-vmsvc and vmware-vmsvc-root in my var/log folder. I've been told that if I just delete them they will only get recreated..is there a best way of ...
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Can logrotate automatically track the size of the log file and rotate it when its size exceeds the limit?
I saw the size directive and created the configuration file /etc/logrotate.d/test:
/home/user/log1 {
size 100
rotate 3
compress
}
but it doesn't work as I expect. The file should be ...
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What is the meaning of last field in logrotate.status file?
Let's say that I have the following line in logrotate.status file:
"/var/log/cron" 2022-11-27-0:0:1
If I have the following files:
ls -l /var/log/cron**
-rw-------. 1 root root 41998 dic 2 ...
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Rotate nginx logs by size
I want to rotate nginx logs when they reach 10MB. Below the config that I have:
/usr/local/nginx/*.log {
size 10M
daily
missingok
rotate 5
compress
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Trying to rotate logs however tee command fails to return after execution
My logs nohup.out is owned by root user while I m trying to rotate the logs using system which has privileged access using sudo
I have written the below script to rotate logs.
cat rotatelog.sh
cp /var/...
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Log rotate is not working when set 2 jobs in the same time
Hi i have directory where i keep logrotate configs.
Let's say /directory1/scripts/logrotate/logrotate_1.conf
All of them are similar.
logrotate_1.conf
su root root
/zzz/env/yyy/tomcat/logs/catalina....
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Is Logrotate missing from my Cron?
I just discovered that my Raspberry Pi has been running out of memory. Checking the contents of /var reveals that I had rather large log files in it (cd /var; du -h | sort -h):
1.3G ./log/journal/...
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How do I keep latest 4 backup file and delete the older one
How do I keep the latest 4 backup files and delete the older one?
backup-Y-M-D.zip
backup-Y-M-D.zip
backup-Y-M-D.zip
backup-Y-M-D.zip
.
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backup-Y-M-D.zip
There are about 80 files having .zip ...
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Tomcat logrotate error: tomcat:1 bad rotation count '7 compress missingok size 5M }'
I have a standalone Tomcat installed on CentOS 8 and I am trying to rotate the catalina.out file.
I have created a file named /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat with vim and added the following line:
/opt/...
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What should be the equivalent logrotate script for CentOS 8
I have a logrotate script for some of my log files at our Ubuntu server. The script is give below.
/home/*/logs/*log {
su root root
notifempty
daily
rotate 7
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logrotate not compressing files
I'm having issues with logrotate as it does not compress files.
We migrated from Centos 7 to Alma linux and since it has not worked.
I'm trying to get logrotate to rotate and compress log files from /...
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Understanding log rotate configuration
I'm having difficulty understanding this logrotate file. Please correct me if I'm wrong
/var/log/app-logs
{
daily
rotate 7
maxage 7
dateext
compress
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Logrotate scenarios - Mix and match cron.daily and daily directive
The file:
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate
has the following statement:
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
The logrotate.conf file has the weekly directive defined inside.
Now I have two rotational ...
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What should be the preferred approach while rotating logs - using the daily directive or putting the file path in cron.daily? [closed]
While doing log rotation, we have two options -
Using the daily directive in the logrotate file -
/var/log/wtmp {
daily
minsize 1M
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}
Putting the ...
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How do ifempty and notifempty work in case of size parameter defined in case of logrotate?
Suppose if I have a logrotate command like this
/a/b/file.log{
size 5M
ifempty
}
Now the logrotate works on the condition that size should be more than 5MB and then logrotate will start working for ...
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error: error setting owner of a.s to uid 0 and gid 0: Operation not permitted
While running the command /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/applogrotate. I get the error error: error setting owner of a.s to uid 0 and gid 0: Operation not permitted. Inside the applogratate file,...
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Understanding the difference between rotate alone and rotate with compress in logrotate
The below block has no compress statement -
/a/b/file.log{
size 200M
create 0664 root root
rotate 10
datext
dateformat -%Y-%m-%d-%s
}
This one has a compress statement -
/a/b/file.log{
size 200M
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Logrotate command block explanation
I have the following logrotate command block -
/a/b/file.log{
size 200M
create 0664 root root
rotate 10
compress
datext
dateformat -%Y-%m-%d-%s
}
Can someone elaborate the meaning of the above block?
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Difference between files cat /etc/logrotate.conf and cat /etc/logrotate.d and cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
I am new to logrotate. I am seeing three files /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d and /etc/cron.daily/logrotate which are essential to the logrotate functioning. But I'm not able to understand ...
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logrotate not able to truncate catalina.out - actual answer
This is related to logrotate not able to truncate catalina.out which is incorrectly closed as a duplicate, even though the duplicate question describes a subtly different issue with a very different ...
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What files should be deleted if i don't want anyone to know if the system has been once linked to the internet?
For certain reasons I have to delete all files that might indicate that the syatem has once been linked to the internet. I have deleted all the records in browser, and the internet ethernet address. ...
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Postfix thinks its on a read only filesystem?
I want to run some analytics on my mail.log (postfix 3.2.13 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) including updating a db of undeliverable emails, so I wrote script, excluded mail.log from the generic /var/log ...
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What is adding a date suffix (access.log.20210909.gz) not the default for logrotate, instead of changing filenames every time (.1, .2.gz, .3.gz)?
Why is the simple solution "adding a datetime suffix to log filenames, e.g. access.log.20210909.gz" not logrotate's default behaviour? Rather than doing a renaming of all log files' ...
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logrotation is gziping log files with incorrect format
I have enabled below logrotation on my VM but somehow logs are being gziped with incorrect format.
log rotation
/logs/springboot/*.log*
{
missingok
minsize 100M
copytruncate
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How to avoid multiple sequence numbers with logrotate
I want to use a central syslog-server (Ubuntu 20.04) to collect log events from other linux servers. This is the logrotate.d config file I use:
rotate 90
daily
missingok
nocompress
dateext
dateformat ...
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how to check validity of /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
we want to check the validity of the configuration file /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
and that because we made some changes on that file from our bash script
so we use the following approach to check the ...
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logrotate + how to control the secure logs under /var/log
secure logs under /var/log in our server are more then 1G as the following
du -sh * | grep sec
0 secure
4.2G secure-20210726
1.8G secure-20210801
1.2G secure-20210804
so we decided to ...
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Have SELinux allow syslog and logrotate to handle files outside of /var/log
on a Centos 8 server, I attached a bigger disk mounted to /mnt/data. The server runs rsyslogd which has a policy to write logs from external systems to /mnt/data/logs/$HOSTNAME.
I do now have the ...
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How can I force nginx to start a new access.log file?
I have to grep through nginx access logs to nullroute troublesome IP addresses regularly, in my estimate about every 15 minutes, and I may have to do whole blocks instead of just the individual IPs.
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Logrotate says it rotates but does not
I have a strange issue with logrotate on a Raspbian 9 system.
Logrotate appears to be configured to rotate /var/log/syslog every seven days. When I run logrotate -f -d /etc/logrotate.conf the output ...
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How to logrotate in any user dir as user?
We have one file, need to timestamp it and archive it in order to prevent overwrites.
Solution must work in any user directory.
Solution must be foolproof.
Solution should work without superuser ...
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Is it safe to change logrotate rotate config? Any risk of old logs being deleted?
I'd like to change the config of rotate 16 to rotate 104 for a logrotate config.
Is this a safe operation? Can it potentially mess up the order / loose log entries? Yes I can and should make backups ...
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dmesg + how to enable dmesg history logs
We have RHEL server version 7.2 and we noticed that dmesg files from previous sessions under /var/log are not created
what we have under /var/log are only
ls -ltr | grep dmesg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ...
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Logrotate rotating one hour after log creation instead of on the hour
I have the following logrotate config that I want to use to rotate a log hourly. It works but I noticed that instead of logrotate rotating on the hour (e.g. 13:00, 14:00), it seems to rotate an hour ...
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Getting name of logrotate file?
Let me start by saying I'm very new to linux and bash scripting, only been at this for 2 weeks so assume I know nothing!
For development reasons, I need to copy a log file to another location and name,...
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after editing logrotate file do I need to restart something?
After editing /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog do I need to restart some service before it takes effect?
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