How to Install logrotate in Ubuntu 18.04



Install logrotate by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install logrotate

Description:

Log rotation utility

The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job.

Homepage: https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate

Version: 3.11.0-0.1ubuntu1

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