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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Logrotate and Compressing only yesterdays files Post 303037882 by MyUserName7000 on Thursday 15th of August 2019 02:31:51 PM
Old 08-15-2019
Hello,

There is a default logrotate in /etc/daily which looks like this

Code:
#!/bin/sh

test -x /usr/sbin/logrotate || exit 0
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

I looked in the logrotate.conf file and have this and just now uncommented compress and create.

Code:
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
daily

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 2

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

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
compress

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

I removed my entries in crontab that were forcing the rotation to run using the syslog-ng.conf file.
I shall see what happens tomorrow/tonight and will let you know. Thanks to you both for the help in the mean time!
 

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