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Does logrotate run a service?
logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it grows too large. Normally, logrotate is run as a daily cron job.
Do you need to restart logrotate service?
logrotate uses crontab to work. It’s scheduled work, not a daemon, so no need to reload its configuration. When the crontab executes logrotate , it will use your new config file automatically.
What to do if logrotate is not working?
# /usr/sbin/logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd considering log /var/log/httpd/access_log log needs rotating <— logrotate rotates the file. (bear in mind that the -d causes a dry-run, hence is only useful for inspecting, you have to actually run the command without -d to make status entries or rotate files etc)
Why does my logrotate file rotate to cisco.log?
The “new” logs were redirect to cisco.log (as we want) but yesterday the file doesn’t rotate and it’s still storaging to cisco.log file instead rotate to cisco.log.1 can you provide full contents of /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and also run: Also, provide details of how many different logrotate configs exist: Many thanks for your answer!
How to get logrotate to work on my VPS?
I am trying to get logrotate to work on my VPS to rotate my apache files weekly. Currently the contents of the apache2 config file is as such. I’ve left it for two weeks now and nothing has changed as far as I can tell. When I simulate it from the command line I get the following output.
Why is my Apache log file not working?
This can be because you log files are empty. This situation can happens because apache still write in a previous log file, which has been renamed without restarting apache. So access.log became access.log.1 and apache writes into it. I faced the similar issue except for none of these answers helped me.