logrotate

Example - catalina.out

Create and insert

Bash

/etc/logrotate.d/tomcat

Bash

/var/log/tomcat/catalina.out {
copytruncate
daily
rotate 7
compress
missingok
size 2G
}

About the above configuration:

Make sure that the path /var/log/tomcat/catalina.out above is adjusted to point to your tomcat’s catalina.out

daily - rotates the catalina.out daily

rotate – keeps at most 7 log files

compress – compressesthe rotated files

size – rotates if the size of catalina.out is bigger than 5M

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Run command manually:

Bash

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

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Disable

To stop a specific logrotate process, find its configuration file in /etc/logrotate.d/, rename it by adding a .disabled extension, or move the file to another directory. You can also edit the file to comment out its contents or add a nomail directive to prevent emails, though renaming is the most direct way to stop its function.