Exploring the Logrotate Configuration
Logrotate is a system utility that manages the automatic rotation and compression of log files. If log files were not rotated, compressed, and periodically pruned, they could eventually consume all available disk space on a system. Logrotate’s configuration information can generally be found in two places: /etc/logrotate.conf: this file contains some default settings and sets up the rotation for a few logs that are not owned by any system packages. It also uses an include statement to pull in configuration from any file in the /etc/logrotate....