logrotate config builder

logrotate config builder generate /etc/logrotate.d snippets

Log files

Wildcards are fine — e.g. /var/log/nginx/*.log. Paths containing spaces will be quoted automatically.

Rotation schedule

Hourly Daily Weekly Monthly Yearly Size only

rotate

Number of rotated archives kept

size

Rotate once this size is exceeded

minsize

maxage

start

Initial rotation index

Compression

compress Gzip rotated files (default) delaycompress Wait one cycle before compressing — useful when the app may still hold the old fd shred Securely delete old archives instead of unlinking them

compresscmd

compressoptions

shredcycles

File handling

missingok Don't error if the log file is absent notifempty Skip rotation when the log is empty copytruncate Copy then truncate — for apps that can't be told to reopen their log allowhardlink Permit rotation of hard-linked log files create Recreate the log file after rotation with given mode / owner / group

mode

owner

group

su Run rotation as a specific user / group (needed when the log dir isn't root-writable)

user

group

Naming & archives

dateext Append a date instead of a sequential number

dateformat

dateyesterday Use yesterday's date in the filename

olddir

Move archives into this directory

extension

Keep this suffix on rotated files

tabooext

Extensions logrotate should ignore

Scripts

sharedscripts Run prerotate / postrotate once per invocation instead of once per log file

firstaction

prerotate

postrotate

lastaction

Extra directives

Raw lines to inject inside the block

Anything not covered above — one directive per line.

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