Linux日志系统-02：logrotate简介

目录

1、logrotate作用

2、logrotate具体功能

3、logrotate的配置文件

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1、logrotate作用

（1）logrotate可以实现日志转储，目的是防止日志文件太大。

（2）系统的使用方式，每天执行一次logrotate，这是基于计划任务文件实现，计划任务脚本/etc/cron.daily/logrotate如下：
 

#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/logrotate -s /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status /etc/logrotate.conf

EXITVALUE=$?

if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then

    /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"

fi

exit 0

2、logrotate具体功能

（1）自动对日志文件进行滚动

（2）压缩日志文件

（3）删除旧日志

（4）发送邮件通知

 

3、logrotate的配置文件

（1）主配置文件：/etc/logrotate.conf

# see "man logrotate" for details

# rotate log files weekly

weekly


# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs

rotate 4


# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones

create


# use date as a suffix of the rotated file

dateext


# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed

#compress


# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory

include /etc/logrotate.d


# no packages own wtmp and btmp -- we'll rotate them here

/var/log/wtmp {

    monthly

    create 0664 root utmp

        minsize 1M

    rotate 1

}

og/btmp {

    missingok

    monthly

    create 0600 root utmp

    rotate 1

}


# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.

（2）子配置文件：/etc/logrotate.d目录中

（3）自己的配置文件：/var/lib/logrotate.status(记录了logrotate的滚动日志的记录)