logrotate

linux

Rotates, compresses, and mails system logs.

Examples (5)

Trigger a run manually

logrotate path/to/logrotate.conf --force

Run using a specific command to mail reports

logrotate path/to/logrotate.conf --mail /usr/bin/mail_command

Run without using a state (lock) file

logrotate path/to/logrotate.conf --state /dev/null

Run and skip the state (lock) file check

logrotate path/to/logrotate.conf --skip-state-lock

Tell `logrotate` to log verbose output into the log file

logrotate path/to/logrotate.conf --log path/to/log_file