Logrotate

wikipedia:logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of log files

logrotate package

logrotate.timer

Configuration file: /etc/logrotate.conf

Rotate a single file

logrotate /path/to/file/to_rotate

Related commands

• split
• truncate

Activities

• Read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Logrotate
• Read man page https://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate

See also

• cat (man), cat -A, tac, more, less, tail, mtail, echo, stdin, tr, column, paste, truncate, logrotate, xzcat pv, progress, sort, ncat, virt-cat, awk, join, col, fold, tee, sponge, nfs-cat, journalctl, ccat, icat, EOF, lolcat, bat
• Linux logging, Cisco IOS logging
• Logs, Log collector, log management, log explorer, Linux logging, docker logs, minikube logs, Vector, Logstash, Filebeat, promtail, logfmt, Elasticsearch, fluentd, Mezmo (LogDNA), Scalyr, Loggly, Loki, tlog, cockpit, NXLog, Winston, Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights, Logz.io, Logflare, Coralogix