Translations:Limit the size of .log files & the journal/124/en
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- rotate all /var/log files with names ending in log
/var/log/*log { ## cycle through these commands once per day daily ## keep the results of 7 cycles rotate 7 ## use gzip to compress each rotated (copied) log file compress ## compress the file on the next cycle delaycompress ## copy the contents of the log file to a new file <name>.log.1 ## & then delete the contents of the original log file copytruncate ## do nothing to empty files notifempty ## create no errors if a file is missing missingok ## after the files have been rotated run the following command }