Bash Cookbook

Adding configuration to /etc/logrotate.d/

Now, we will configure a web server. This puts information like access.log and error.log into the /var/log/example-app. It will act as a data user or group.

To add some configuration to /etc/logrotate.d/, first open up a new file there:

$ sudo nano /etc/logrotate.d/example-app

Write the following code in example-app:

/var/log/example-app/*.log {    daily    missingok    rotate 14    compress    notifempty    create 0640 www-data www-data    sharedscripts    postrotate        systemctl reload example-app    endscript}

Some of the new configuration directives in this file are as follows:

• create 0640 www-data www-data: After rotation, this will create a new empty log file with specified permissions for the owner and group.
• sharedscripts ...