Rotation for logfiles¶

For systems using prod as environment:

var/logs/prod.log
var/logs/silver.eshop.log
var/logs/prod-siso.eshop.erp.log

logrotate¶

The logrotate utility is a standard tool in Linux systems. It is run by cron.daily once a day at 6:25 am (on Ubuntu systems). When logrotate runs, it reads all the configuration scripts in /etc/logrotate.d/.

This directory contains already several scripts for e.g. apache2, samba, apt, etc.

Configuration for rotating logs¶

Create a new configuration file for logrotate in /etc/logrotate.d/silver-eshop:

/var/www/projects/<your-project>/var/logs/prod.log /var/www/projects/<your-project>/var/logs/silver.eshop.log /var/www/projects/<your-project>/var/logs/prod-siso.eshop.erp.log {
    su www-data www-data
    daily
    size 50M
    rotate 30
    missingok
    create 674 devel devel
    compress
}

If the logfiles grow very quickly, you can run logrotate once per hour by putting it in cron.hourly (it will run at 17 minutes past every hour):

1	`mv /etc/cron.daily/logrotate /etc/cron.hourly`