The "problem" is that logrotate doesn't immediately switch any logs, but only after the rotation time for a file (in your case 1 day) has passed since it was first seen. So if you have 2 files, for the 14th and 15th of the month, and logrotate first sees them on the 16th of the month, they'll normally get rotated on the 17th.
With applications separating their logs by themselves, it's probably easier to work with find, eg:
I changed the logrotate.conf file to make a new log file to be automatically rotated daily. But after a night, I have not seen the rotated file.
When does this rotation happen? I mean what is the exact time?
In addition, do I have to restart what deamon to make the change take effect? (10 Replies)
Hi,guys:
recently,i am puzzled by a question .when i create a new file named by /etc/logrotate.d/debug. The cont. is listed as follow:
/var/log/debug {
rotate 3
missingok
notifempty
size=2k
prerotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
I have to configure the logrotate.conf file on some Linux RedHat servers.
So, by default I seen the file is as follow:
# 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... (5 Replies)
I am having a requirement to rotate the my application logs dailay as it is keep on writiing to single file and below is the logrotate function which I am using,
cat /apps/bmc/bmtm/QPasa_logrotate.conf
/apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log {
missingok
... (1 Reply)
I have written script which is working in Home directory perfectly and also compressing log files and rotating correctly. But, when i try to run script for /var/log/ i am able to get compressed log files but not able to get rotation of compressed log files. Please suggest.
I am using below command... (5 Replies)
Hi Admins.
I have installed logrotate rpm on Aix 6.1.
After the installation of rpm, I don't find /etc/logrotate.conf file and /etc/logrotate.d dir .
The config file is located in /opt/freeware/etc/logrotate.conf.
When I ran
logrotate -v /opt/freeware/etc/logrotate.conf
I get below... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys -
We have the /var/adm/pacct file currently configured to log rotate using logadm - here is the entry in logadm.conf:
/var/adm/pacct -C 0 -N -P 'Wed Oct 23 08:00:00 2013' -a '/usr/lib/acct/accton pacct' -g adm -m 664 -o adm -p never
Just want to ask if it would like possible to... (1 Reply)
Hello,
For various reasons I decided to rebuild my log server on a new microSD. To simplify matters I restored a backed up copy of the appropriate config files and uploaded them to the new log server once syslog-ng was setup. The issue I am running into now is when logrotate compresses the log... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
crontab
crontab(5) File Formats Manual crontab(5)Name
crontab - clock daemon table file
Syntax
/usr/lib/crontab
Description
The command executes at specified dates and times according to the instructions in the file. The file consists of lines with six fields
each. The format for a line is as follows:
minute hour day month weekday command
The following list defines each field in the line:
minute (0-59) The exact minute that the command sequence executes.
hour (0-23) The hour of the day that the command sequence executes.
day (1-31) The day of the month that the command sequence executes.
month (1-12) The month of the year that the command sequence executes.
weekday (1-7) The day of the week that the command sequence executes. Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, and so forth.
command The complete command sequence variable that is to be executed. Note that the command string must conform to Bourne shell
syntax.
The first five integer fields may be specified as follows:
o A single number in the specified range
o Two numbers separated by a minus, meaning a range inclusive
o A list of numbers separated by commas, meaning any of the numbers
o An asterisk meaning all legal values
The sixth field is a string that is executed by the shell at the specified times. A percent sign (%) in this field is translated to a new-
line character. Only the first line of the command field, up to a percent sign (%) or end of line, is executed by the shell. The other
lines are made available to the command as standard input.
Examples
The following example is part of a file:
# periodic things
0,15,30,45 * * * * (echo '^M' `date`; echo '') >/dev/console
0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/lib/atrun
# daily stuff
5 4 * * * sh /usr/adm/newsyslog
15 4 * * * ( cd /usr/preserve; find . -mtime +7 -a -exec rm -f {} ; )
20 4 * * * find /usr/msgs -mtime +21 -a ! -perm 444 -a ! -name bounds
-a -exec rm -f {} ;
# NOTE: The above line is wrapped.
# local cleanups
30 4 * * * find /usr/spool/mqueue -type f -mtime +5 -name df-exec rm {} ;
35 4 * * * find /usr/spool/mqueue -type f -mtime +5 -name tf-exec rm {} ;
40 4 * * * find /usr/spool/rwho -type f -mtime +21 -exec rm {} ;
#
# redirecting error output
0 17 * * 1,3,5 /bin/tar -cv /usr/sysads/smith > /dev/console 2>&1
#
FilesSee Alsosh(1), cron(8)
Guide to System Environment Setup
crontab(5)