# see "man logrotate" for details # rotate log files weekly weekly # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs rotate 4 # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones create # old versions of log files are compressed with gzip compress # compress only from the second log file delaycompress # use date as a suffix of the rotated file dateext # do not rotate the log if it is empty notifempty # packages drop log rotation information into this directory include /etc/logrotate.d # no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here /var/log/wtmp { rotate 3 monthly missingok create 0664 root utmp olddir /var/log/old_logs } /var/log/btmp { monthly rotate 3 missingok create 0660 root utmp olddir /var/log/old_logs } # system-specific logs may be configured here # See /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog