Answer by Leon Africa for Centos/Linux setting logrotate to maximum file size...
To simplify the explanation further:Logrotate size parameter is only applied when logrotate runs.So for example, if you set your logrotate to run every hour and when size reaches 5MB. If the file...
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As mentioned by Zeeshan, the logrotate options size, minsize, maxsize are triggers for rotation.To better explain it. You can run logrotate as often as you like, but unless a threshold is reached such...
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It specifies the size of the log file to trigger rotation. For example size 50M will trigger a log rotation once the file is 50MB or greater in size. You can use the suffix M for megabytes, k for...
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we use logrotate and it runs daily ... now we have had some situations where logs have grown significantly (read: gigbaytes) and killing our server. So now we would like to set a maximum filesize to...
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