Configuring logrotate without root access (per user log rotation)
Try this procedure:
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create
/home/user/logrotate
foldermkdir /home/user/logrotate
create
/home/user/logrotate/my.conf
configuration file with logrotate directive as you need-
create
/home/user/logrotate/cronjob
to run logrotate every day at 2:30 AM (this is an example)30 2 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate -s /home/user/logrotate/status /home/user/logrotate/my.conf > /dev/null 2>&1
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check your configuration file syntax:
logrotate -d /home/user/logrotate/my.conf
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configure
crontab
to runlogrotate
(Warning: This removes existing entries in your crontab. Usecrontab -e
to manually add the line from step 3 to an existing crontab):crontab /home/user/logrotate/cronjob
After this last command, logrotate
will rotate file as described in /home/user/logrotate/my.conf
and save log file status in /home/user/logrotate/status
.
Use:
crontab -r # remove crontab activities for user
crontab -l # to list crontab activity for user
crontab -e # edit user crontab entries
Here is logrotate and crontab man page.