Logfilemanagement with Logrotate (Ubuntu)

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# Verify that logrotate is installed
logrotate --version

#  Check Loglocations, that have to be rotated
ls /var/log/remotelogs/

# Create a new Logrotate-Configuration File
sudo nano /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog-remote

/var/log/remotelogs/**/*.log {
        daily
        missingok
        rotate 1
        compress
        create
}

/var/log/remotelogs/**/: these two stars will match zero or more (sub-) directories
/*.log: all files, that ends with ".log", will be processed
daily: daily rotation. This overrides the weekly default
missingok: don’t write an error message if the log file is missing
rotate 1: keep one old log files. This overrides the rotate 4 default
compress: compress the rotated files. this uses gzip by default and results in files ending in .gz
create: this creates a new empty log file after rotation

# Run Default Logrotate-Config in Debug Mode
sudo logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf --debug

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