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linuxcodeigniterlogrotatelog-rotation
Sundar
Sundar

Reputation: 4650

How to create logrotate in linux

How to create new log rotate files for my codeigniter application in LAMP server command line . I want to run this daily process

log files will be like this

application/logs/log-2013-06-12.php
application/logs/log-2013-06-13.php
application/logs/log-2013-06-14.php
application/logs/log-2013-06-15.php

here is my log rotate script if any errors please let me know

/var/www/my-app/application/logs/*.php{
    daily
    missingok
    rotate 7
    compress
    delaycompress
    notifempty   
    create 640 root password
    sharedscripts
    dateext
    dateformat -web01-%Y-%m-%d-%s
    postrotate
        /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null       
    endscript
    prerotate
        if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \
            run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \
        fi; \
    endscript
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1617

Answers (1)

Akshay Patil
Akshay Patil

Reputation: 970

The config file you created is fine. Logrotate utility just provides the checking mechanism.

There is /etc/cron.daily/logrotate file which invokes the logrotate daily.

For testing purpose you can add your cron minutely rule and putting the logrotate's config file under that rule.

Upvotes: 1

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