How to Setup and Manage Logrotate in centos7.6
How to setup and Manage logrotate in Centos
Process
Change Directory to default logrotate directory
[root@linuxhelp ~]# cd /etc/logrotate.d/
[root@linuxhelp logrotate.d]# ls -la
total 80
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 258 Jun 17 15:21 .
drwxr-xr-x. 146 root root 8192 Dec 3 10:42 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 91 Apr 11 2018 bootlog
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 160 Sep 15 2017 chrony
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 71 Apr 11 2018 cups
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 626 Oct 13 2017 glusterfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 194 Apr 24 2019 httpd
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 172 Sep 30 2016 iscsiuiolog
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 165 Oct 31 2018 libvirtd
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 142 Oct 31 2018 libvirtd.qemu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 893 Aug 16 2018 mariadb
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 106 Apr 11 2018 numad
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 136 Jun 10 2014 ppp
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 408 Aug 3 2017 psacct
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 115 Oct 31 2018 samba
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 237 Oct 31 2018 sssd
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 224 Oct 30 2018 syslog
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 100 Oct 31 2018 wpa_supplicant
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 103 Nov 5 2018 yum
Create a your custom logrotate configuration file
[root@linuxhelp logrotate.d]# vim apache
/var/log/httpd/* {
weekly
create 0644 root root
rotate 5
size 100M
dateext
dateformat -%d%m%y
compress
olddir /mnt/test/
notifempty
}
To check the Existing apache’s access log
[root@linuxhelp logrotate.d]# vim /var/log/httpd/access_log
To check the Existing apache’s error log
[root@linuxhelp logrotate.d]# vim /var/log/httpd/error_log
Change directory
[root@linuxhelp logrotate.d]# cd /mnt
create Directory
[root@linuxhelp mnt]# mkdir test
Run logrotate forcely by executing the following command
[root@linuxhelp mnt]# logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/apache
Then change directory to test
[root@linuxhelp mnt]# cd test
[root@linuxhelp test]# ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 51 Dec 3 10:59 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 18 Dec 3 10:58 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 Jun 17 15:30 access_log.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 958 Dec 3 10:42 error_log.1.gz
Unzip the rotated log file
[root@linuxhelp test]# gunzip access_log.1.gz
[root@linuxhelp test]# gunzip error_log.1.gz
Check the rotated log file and original log file
[root@linuxhelp test]# vim access_log.1
Log file become empty when the logrotate has done
[root@linuxhelp test]# vim /var/log/httpd/access_log
With this, the method to setup and Manage logrotate in Centos comes to end
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