Questions tagged [logrotate]
A program for managing and archiving individual log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Jobs can be configured to run hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or when reaching a certain size or age.
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Using logrotate with rsyslog for rotation of logs based on fixed size
Due to specific requirements, there is a need to constrict syslog to a particular size (512 MB) and also to move the syslog and kern.log to a separate custom location.
Current Syslog configuration -
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Is there a way to run logrotate of a specific application's logs only at times other than midnight?
I put the file I set in the "logrotate.d folder".
And I wanted to run the file only at 00:30 every day through "crontab -e".
However, when I checked the next day, it was executed ...
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Logrotation has different behaviors when reading from "/etc/logrotate.conf" and "/etc/logrotate.d/*conf" files
We need to keep only one log file of each service in our Ubuntu 20.04 servers. I've modified the /etc/logrotate.conf file as follows:
weekly
su root adm
rotate 0
create
ifempty
include /etc/logrotate....
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logrotate not removing old files
I'm trying to create a logrotate configuration that is the same for all log files. Right now I have
/var/log/* {
size 100k
rotate 5
missingok
compress
}
I created a shell script that ...
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How can I schedule daily logrotate for a different time of day [duplicate]
The only information I can find indicates logrotate happens at midnight. That happens to be UTC on my server and 10AM local time.
How can I reschedule logrotate to a more convenient time when fewer ...
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Ubuntu 22.04: Logrotate not working after upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04
I just realized that since the upgrade to 22.04.1, logrotate is not working. Syslog hasn't been rotated for many days. It's supposed to be run by systemd timers, and the related timer is activated:
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Each day when the logs turn over, the system fails to find space even though there is plenty on the device; potential error with init.d script
I'm still at a loss for this specific error and any help or pushing in the right direction would be much, much appreciated.
TL;DR: Many, many instances of an init.d spawned script seem to be running, ...
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What are the options to manage the size of /var/log/syslog of an embedded system
I have an embedded system (i.MX6) running a modified version of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS bionic stored on its SD card and I want to know how to manage /var/log/syslog file size.
I noticed that systemd journal ...
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large number of strange samba log files not cleaned by logrotate
On my ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS I see a large number of log files with names like this:
log.2003_df_272d_9b00_810b_3c34_b13a_800c
log.2003_df_272d_9b00_30b7_2646_c9ca_36c9
These are obviously created by ...
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Bash script for Logrotate can't start in crontab
i have a simple bash script for execute a logrotate command which is the follow command:
sudo logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/logfile
When i set the bash script into crontab the script didn't execute, ...
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Logrotate syslog and mysql error
OS version: 20.04
When trying to manually logrotate, there are errors rotating syslog and mysql.
~$ sudo logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf
error: rsyslog:4 unknown unit 'e'
error: found error in /var/...
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Ubuntu 20.04.3: nginx crashes with segfault
I have an Ubuntu box (20.04.3) on which nginx stopped already twice with a segfault:
Nov 16 00:01:23 documents-oo kernel: [2726316.050697] nginx[2579242]: segfault at 41 ip 00007fbf59548593 sp ...
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what is the default value in logrotate.conf
In /etc/logrotate.conf
is user permission different between Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04 releases?
#use the syslog group by default, since this is the owning group
#of /var/log/syslog.
su root syslog
or
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log rotation for /var/log
I got an alert that the root directory is running out of space. On inspection using ncdu i found that the /var/log folder was taking alot space. Then further inspection shows that syslog and kern.log ...
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The size of log files is still big after logrotate on ubuntu 20.04
logrotate was setup on Ubuntu 20.04 to limit the besu log file size to 10MB, keep 4 weeks log with rotating weekly and delete the old log file. Here is the besu conf:
#for besu log
/home/log/besu/* {
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How do I get the latest logrotate, which isn't yet in the apt repositories?
I'm on 20.04, which has logrotate 3.14.0. I need a later version which has important bugfixes.
This page shows that 20.04 has version 3.14.0, and this page shows that 21.04 has version 3.18.0 (the one ...
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Mysql logrotation doesn't work
I'm having trouble making Mysql log rotation working. I don't know why this is so complicated , even though I followed documentation and internet advice, still cannot make it work.
I have enabled all ...
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Trouble getting logs to autorotate with logrotate
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Gnome 3.36.8
$ logrotate --version
logrotate 3.14.0
It's been impossible to get logs to rotate automatically once they reach a size of 125M. Here's the config file saved to /etc/...
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Setting a size limit for current syslog
Based on other threads, the only way to set a size limit on current syslog (/var/log/syslog) seems to be via rsyslog which is a bit tricky. I ended up replacing the line below in /etc/rsyslog.d/50-...
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Syslog start logging in the morning! why?
Hello I've a Ubuntu server 18.04 running. But the problem is syslog start logging at every morning not at 00:00 midnight!
Jan 5 06:25:03 localhost snmpd[810]: truncating integer value > 32 bits
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Why My Logrotate Configurations Doesn't Work Correctly for MySQL-MariaDB?
I am using an MariaDB Galera 3-Cluster and I saw that the mysql logs on Node 2 grows up to 100gb and I decided to limited these logs that will not grow a lot. I used logrotate for that, so an file ...
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/var/log/syslog not getting rotated
I have a fresh install of ubuntu 20.04. I have set daily rotation in /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog file with a maxsize of 1M but the /var/log/syslog and kern.log file keeps increasing. Here is the rsyslog ...
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logrotate succeeds when manually run as root, but fails with "Read-only file system" when run by logrotate.service
I have a (formerly working) logrotate setup for OpenResty that I took from a previous Ubuntu 18.04 installation. Yet the logrotate.service fails with this error now ...
error: error renaming /usr/...
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logrotate - file owner issue
I want to rotate the syslog for testing.
sudo logrotate -f /var/log/syslog
[sudo] password for stephen:
error: Ignoring /var/log/syslog because the file owner is wrong (should be root or user with ...
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Cannot run logrotate utility automatically from cron
I run sudo crontab -e and append the following line:
* * * * * logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/adraw; touch /ADraw/Data/Logs/test.txt
The file test.txt is successfully created, but I see no results of ...
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Logrotate not doing his job, hdd full because of logs
I have a small microSD ( 3GB ) on a ARM Samsung Artik, with Ubuntu installed.
I have installed syslog-ng and Logrotate to manage my logs, because otherwise my memory get filled quickly.
My problem ...
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Logrotate doesn't work in read only mode
I am running a device in read only mode with ubuntu and also I need to run Mysql server. Mysql server creates error log files in /var/log/mysql directory.
But since I am running it in read only mode, ...
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syslog-ng leaving empty log files after rotation
Let me start by saying I am new to syslog-ng and logrotation and am doing this at home to learn.
I have log files that are being sent to my syslog server from my router and are logging no problem ...
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How to enable a logrotation with Jenkins
I need to enable the logrotate service with Jenkins in order to rotate its log files (/var/log/jenkins/jenkins.log).
So, I configured a script in /etc/logrotate.d with right permissions:
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Logrotate on "not always on" system
I have several Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 systems, whose have no defined operating hours, for example desktop, laptop or VMs runt on demand. What are the right ways and tools to automatically rotate logs ...
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Ubuntu 18.10 Tomcat8 catalina.out file path
In previosu version, I saw that the catalina.out file was created at /var/log/tomcat8/catalina.out location.
As I was study for my current installation, Ubuntu 18.10 and last package version, I saw ...
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How to set size for system log
My server dumps because of huge system log files. I've heard that we could limit the size of system log by adding such a line size 100m into the file /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog to do so.
Now my /etc/...
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Mysql bin.log file rotation
I am trying to change the binary log rotation from days to hours. By default there is an option only for days in mysql config file: expire_logs_days.
Is there any way, where i could change binary log ...
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Where should I look for logrotate config file of /var/log/mail.log
I would like to change the suffix of mail.log rotated files to include the date, such as
/var/log/mail.log.20180920
I read from this question that /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd should be changed, but I ...
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What is the syntax for commenting out lines in logrotate config files?
Not sure if this is possible at all.
And what about empty lines?
Update:
Testing the config with
logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.d/apache2
returns
error: /etc/logrotate.d/apache2:1 lines must begin ...
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Does logrotate handle wildcards the same as ls?
I'd like to specify the files for logrotate to handle via the following wildcard string: /home/deploy/*/logs/nginx-*.log
If I do ls with this wildcard string, it shows exactly the files I want to be ...
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logrotate is unable to list the created files in linux
i created my logrotate in /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog
/var/log/pcapcapture/capture.log
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maxsize 100k
minsize 100k
hourly
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Logrotate configuration: it works, but always keeps 'current' log empty
I moved logging for openvpn into its own log and attempted to set up log rotation for it, but I've obviously done something wrong.
Logging occurs as desired but always into the 2nd logfileopenvpn.log....
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Daily compress log files not working
This is the log file I am using to compress log files on a daily basis.
/home/ubuntu/logs/server.log {
daily
missingok
rotate 1
compress
create
dateext
dateyesterday
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logrotate weekly archiving empties out daily files
My aim is to maintain 4 days' worth of log files so that on the fifth day, a zip file with all four log files is created. The four log files created so far are deleted.
This is my logrotate.conf:
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How to configure logrotate in a default, most basic conf for an all-default system?
I have an all-default Ubuntu VPS machine with Nginx, for a few light WordPress sites with say up to 5 plugins, 10 webpages, 20 images each.
So far I cleaned all default logs (or at least some of them)...
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What is the easiest way to setup Log rotation [duplicate]
Recently, I have setup a script that outputs to a single log file... After quite a while this file begins to become too large to manage. I was wondering what the easiest way is to setup log rotations ...
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rsyslog not write log after logrotate
OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-101-generic x86_64)
rsyslog not writing logfile mail.log after logrotate,
file mail.log is empty.
After restart rsyslog (service rsyslog restart) mail.log ...
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Log rotation is not working automatically
Trying to create log rotation, but it's not working automatically.
write following code in .sh file and store in /etc/logratate.d/xxx:
/var/log/xxx/*.log {
daily
missingok
rotate 10
compress
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How to rotate graphite's logs?
We have the graphite-web package installed, which came with its /etc/logrotate.d/graphite-web.
Unfortunately, the "out-of-the-box" file is broken -- the files are rotated, but the daemons writing ...
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How do I rotate my logs despite having running processes?
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. I have this Rails project and my logs are exploding out of control size-wise ...
myuser@myapp:~$ ls -al /home/rails/myapp/log/
total 3118220
drwxr-xr-x 2 rails rails ...
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logrotate does not produce any output
I set up a logrotate configuration file containing containing two entries. the file contains the following:
/var/www/designer-24.com/var/log/* {
daily
missingok
rotate 7
dateext
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How to rotate a log file in ubuntu on size basis hourly?
/opt/variable/log/myapp.log
{
rotate 24
hourly
maxsize 10k
compress
ifempty
postrotate
reload rsyslog > /dev/null 2> & 1 || true
endscript
}
I have copied ...
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How can I configure logrotate without having `/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog`?
I am trying to configure log rotation on my Ubuntu machine so that logs are rotated every day and kept for 14 days. Most tutorials I find, such as this one, mention that I should modify /etc/logrotate....
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Why do only some of my logs get rotated?
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. I have the following in my /etc/logrotate.conf file ...
/home/rails/myproject/log {
daily
rotate 3
compress
delaycompress
missingok
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