Best Answer: How Do I Logrotate in Linux?
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How do you logrotate a file in Linux?

Manage Linux log files with Logrotate

  1. The logrotate configuration.
  2. Setting defaults for logrotate.
  3. Using the include option to read other configuration files.
  4. Setting rotation parameters for specific files.
  5. Using the include option to override defaults.

How use logrotate command in Linux?

If a directory is given on the command line, every file in that directory is used as a config file. If no command line arguments are given, logrotate will print version and copyright information, along with a short usage summary. If any errors occur while rotating logs, logrotate will exit with non-zero status.

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