[Cialug] logrotation help for RHEL 6

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

I've never set up log rotation specifying both a period ("daily") and a 
size ("size 512M"). Normally one specifies either a period (such as 
daily) or a maximum size, but not both.

>From the logrotate.conf(8) on an RHEL6 box: "Log files are rotated only 
if they grow bigger then size bytes." So i think if you specify a size 
that the logs won't rotate until they grow large enough.

On 2015-01-27 at 15:51:24 Kelly Slaugh wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I've been working on troubleshooting why a particular config file will
> not rotate daily as I've set the config file to do.  Here is my
> config file details minus actual path.
> 
> /path/to/directory/logs/*log {
>         daily
>         missingok
>         rotate 32
>         notifempty
>         size 512M
>         compress
>         delaycompress
>         create 644 apache apache
>         sharedscripts
>         postrotate
>                 /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null ||
> true /sbin/service nginx reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
> endscript
> }
> 
> I'm having to reload nginx as well has apache because the logs that
> are stored are apache and nginx logs.  And as we know apache and
> nginx will not start using the logs unless they are reloaded.  The
> config file is stored in the /etc/logrotate.d/ directory.  Everything
> works on the weekly rotation set up in the /etc/logrotate.conf file. 
> However, from my research and knowledge isn't logrotate supposed to
> rotate the files based off the config file settings?
> 
> Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Kelly S.
> 
> 
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