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Logfile rotation

You can set up automatic rotation of logfiles to avoid overfilling the disk space.

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).

To configure logfile rotation for shop logs, create a new configuration file in /etc/logrotate.d/silver-eshop:

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<your-project>/var/log/prod.log <your-project>/var/log/silver.eshop.log <your-project>/var/log/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):

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