Log rotation on Linux systems is more complicated than you might expect. Which log files are rotated, when and how often, whether or not the rotated log files are compressed, and how many instances of ...

The logrotate facility provides an automatic way for log files to roll over, basically ensuring that they don’t grow so large that they consume too much space on your disk. This also makes them more ...

Is there some way to force a daemon to rotate its logs before hitting its max log size or number of days, etc.? Specially I'm interested in auditd, but a method which can be used on any daemon which ...

In the world of system administration, effective log management is crucial for troubleshooting, security monitoring, and ensuring system stability. Logs provide valuable insights into system ...

Slighty, off topic: When Solaris 7 rotates, /var/log/syslog, and others, it does not compress the old logs. Where is the rotation of logs controlled and can it be changed to compress the old logs?