As stated on the edit on my question the problem was that CMD from nginx:1.11 was only starting the nginx process. A work around is to place the following command on my Dockerfile CMD service cron start && nginx -g ‘daemon off;’ This will start nginx as nginx:1.11 starts it and well as start the … Read more
If you do not want to bother with logrotare you can use a full python/gunicorn solution using python logging facilities. Create a file named log.conf with the content below. This will rotate the error log file and access log file daily and will keep the logs for 90 days. Log level is set to INFO. … Read more
You should be able to keep the extension apart, e.g. whatever.2012-03-03.csv, with the following configuration: whatever.csv { dateext dateformat .%Y-%m-%d extension .csv … } Note the dateext is deliberately empty.
Logrotate removes files according to order in lexically sorted list of rotated log file names, and also by file age (using last modification time of the file) rotate is maximal number of rotated files, you may find. If there is higher number of rotated log files, their names are lexically sorted and the lexically smallest … Read more
(First post ever so if it looks like a drunk spider has formatted it then sorry) After using our friend Google, here and I can’t remember where else I managed to achieve something using logrotate (rather than cron or some other equivalent). I have a the following in /var/log/rsync/: -rw-r–r– 1 root root 1.1M Apr … Read more
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 as the filesize being reached or the appropriate time passed, the logs will not be rotated. The size options do not … Read more
just add su root adm to the config file: /var/log/apache2/*.log { # … su root adm }
The manpage of logrotate.conf contains an important advice for the hourly option: Log files are rotated every hour. Note that usually logrotate is configured to be run by cron daily. You have to change this configuration and run logrotate hourly to be able to really rotate logs hourly. As pointed out by yellow1pl the solution … Read more
Yes: logrotate –force $CONFIG_FILE