logrotate вращает, сжимает и отправляет системные журналы по почте (logrotate ‐ rotates, compresses, and mails system logs)
Описание (Description)
logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that
generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic
rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each
log file may be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it grows
too large.
Normally, logrotate is run as a daily cron job. It will not
modify a log more than once in one day unless the criterion for
that log is based on the log's size and logrotate is being run
more than once each day, or unless the -f or --force option is
used.
Any number of config files may be given on the command line.
Later config files may override the options given in earlier
files, so the order in which the logrotate config files are
listed is important. Normally, a single config file which
includes any other config files which are needed should be used.
See below for more information on how to use the include
directive to accomplish this. If a directory is given on the
command line, every file in that directory is used as a config
file.
If no command line arguments are given, logrotate will print
version and copyright information, along with a short usage
summary. If any errors occur while rotating logs, logrotate will
exit with non-zero status.
