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# cat /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat
/var/log/jboss/tomcat_access_log*.log {
        daily
        nocreate
        rotate 1
        compress
        missingok
        postrotate
                find /var/log/jboss/ -iname 'tomcat_access_log*.gz' -type f -mtime +4 -exec rm -f \{\} \;
        endscript
}

$ls -l /var/log/jboss
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46546 Oct 14 10:22 tomcat_access_log.2009-10-14.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46546 Oct 15 14:10 tomcat_access_log.2009-10-15.log

# cat /etc/logrotate.conf
# Let's do daily rotations on this system.
daily
rotate 30
create
compress
include /etc/logrotate.d
/var/log/wtmp {
        monthly
        create 0664 root utmp
        rotate 1
}

$ /usr/sbin/logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf
rotating pattern: /var/log/jboss/tomcat_access_log*.log  after 1 days (1 rotations)
empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/jboss/tomcat_access_log.2009-10-14.log
  log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/jboss/tomcat_access_log.2009-10-15.log
  log does not need rotating
not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated
not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated

$ls -l /var/log/jboss
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46546 Oct 14 10:22 tomcat_access_log.2009-10-14.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46546 Oct 15 14:10 tomcat_access_log.2009-10-15.log

# cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
    /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0
chmod a+r /var/log/messages

find /var/log/jboss -type f -name '*.log' -mtime +1 -exec gzip -9 '{}' ';'
find /var/log/jboss -type f -name '*.log.gz' -mtime +4 -exec rm -f '{}' ';'