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Logrotate rotation on size and not numbers of days or weeks

Can Logrotate only rotate logs if they're say 1MB in size and not weekly ?

I'm scratching my head at this one. Thanks.
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HarryP
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Best Answer

Use size instead of daily/weekly etc

"/var/log/httpd/access.log" /var/log/httpd/error.log {

rotate 5

mail www@my.org

size 100k

sharedscripts

postrotate

/sbin/killall -HUP httpd

endscript

Response by:
apjone
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Excellent, I couldn't see the woods for the trees ! Thanks.

Response by:
HarryP
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