# 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 # use date as a suffix of the rotated file #dateext # comment this out if you want your log files uncompressed compress # logs are moved into this directory for rotation #olddir old # do not rotate the log if it is empty notifempty # use xz instead of bz2 compresscmd /usr/bin/pxz compressoptions '-9T4' compressext .xz uncompresscmd /usr/bin/unxz # RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory include /etc/logrotate.d # no packages own wtmp and btmp -- we'll rotate them here /var/log/wtmp { monthly create 0664 root utmp minsize 1M rotate 4 } /var/log/btmp { missingok monthly create 0600 root utmp rotate 4 } # system-specific logs may be also be configured here.