Is it possible to run one iteration of logrotate manually without scheduling it on some interval?

I'm currently trying to work out a method of tidying up Oracle Recover log files that are created by Cron... Currently, our Oracle standby recover process is invoked by Cron every 15mins using th...

Trying to use logrotate and I get the following error when I run the log rotate script for a particular definition in logrotate.d error: error creating state file /var/lib/logrotate/status: Permi...

I was wondering what are my options when it comes to doing logrotate for processes which never close their file descriptors. I am aware of the "restart the service" and copytruncate option. However...

What are the best practices for implementing a file writer/logger in Java that is compatible with logrotate? The goal would be allow logrotate to be used for all log management, instead of using bu...

in last days i get daily mail from cron's logrotate task: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: gzip: stdin: file size changed while zipping How can I fix it? Thanks, Gian Marco.

I am trying to redirect the output of a continuously running program to a file say error_log. The command I am using looks like this, where myprogram.sh runs continuously generating data and writ...

I would like to use Monolog in symfony2 application for logging, but my question is how can I split the file every day instead of appending to the same file? I would like my log file to be somthin...

I am newer to logrotate. when the configure comes to the property "dateformat",it seems that logrotate doesn't support strftime "%H" . here is the config: { daily rotate 2 size 3M missingok n...

I am trying to enable the log rotation for jenkins. Because the log file occupied more memory space. Is there any plugins or method to do it?

I've recently set up the following logrotate job: /var/log/app.*.log { daily rotate 7 copytruncate nocompress dateext } I've found that when I go to view my log files, they start with some ...

I want to configure logrotate to handle /var/log/apache2/access.log separately from all other log files written to /var/log/apache2. Without specifying all the other logs by name explicitly, is the...

I use forever to launch my nodeJs server and I choose the log file : forever -l /home/api/log/api_output.log start server.js I use logrotate to move logfile every day (like advise here : NodeJS/F...

Is it possible to use dateext and rotate options at the same time? config must look like this: /var/log/verybig.log { monthly size=100M dateext dateformat .%Y%m rotate 5 create missingok ...

Python has its own RotatingFileHandler which is supposed to automatically rotate log files. As part of a linux application which would need to rotate it's log file every couple of weeks/months, I a...

I enabled the error_log = /var/log/php5-fpm.log under /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf on my ubuntu 12.04 running nginx and php5-fpm. But I noticed that php5-fpm.log does not logrotate. I tried to under...

I'm writing my own logrotate configuration for some web application: /home/me/public_html/logs/*.log { daily missingok rotate 15 compress delaycompress notifempty create 0660 me www-data n...

I tried to set up a log rotation of logs files located at /tmp/hr_logs/. For setting up, I used logrotate in linux and I'm able to rotate it on daily basis using the following config in my /e...

When I run tail -f for a log file, logrotate rotate it but tail -f did not stop. It continue show logs in new file. After that I try manually; mv my.log my.log.2 touch my.log echo "test text" >...

ProFTPD on Ubuntu is being killed unexpectedly. Log message: $ tail /var/log/proftpd/proftpd.log.1 ... ... ProFTPD killed (signal 15) ... ProFTPD 1.3.5rc3 standalone mode SHUTDOWN Diagnos...

I have a custom application (myApp) which is writing logs to the file '/var/log/myApp'. I can see the logs being written and it works fine. Now I am trying to setup logrotate for this file and for ...

I'm running php5 FPM with APC as an opcode and application cache. As is usual, I am logging php errors into a file. Since that is becoming quite large, I tried to configure logrotate. It works, bu...

I have the following logrorate config for my iptables: /var/log/iptables.log { daily missingok rotate 3 compress notifempty delaycompress postrotate /usr/sbin/service rsynclog restart >...

After force running logrotate, my app keeps writing to my_app.log.1 (the old log that should be archived later) instead of my_app.log. This make my_app.log an empty file, therefore logrotate runs ...

I have set up the configuration file for uwsgi logrotate. When I tested it, it seemed it will work. logrotate -dvf /etc/logrotate.d/uwsgi reading config file /etc/logrotate.d/uwsgi reading config...