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== Some uses for Logrotate ==

For example, if we wanted to rotate all of the .log files in our /var/log/ directory (some .log files will not be affected by this command) on a daily basis; keep it for 7 days before ~~it is~~ deleted (meaning there would be 7 separate log files for the week); compress the ~~file~~ but do it on the next cycle; do it in a fashion where the original contents of the file is copied before the original file's contents is deleted; do nothing if the file is empty; if the file is missing don't give an error; we should be able to do that with the following:

For example, if we wanted to rotate all of the .log files in our /var/log/ directory (some .log files will not be affected by this command) on a daily basis; keep the rotated files for 7 days before they are deleted (meaning there would be 7 separate log files for the week); compress the files but do it on the next cycle; do it in a fashion where the original contents of the file is copied before the original file's contents is deleted; do nothing if the file is empty; if the file is missing don't give an error; we should be able to do that with the following:

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	For example, if we wanted to rotate all of the .log files in our /var/log/ directory (some .log files will not be affected by this command) on a daily basis; keep it for 7 days before ~~it is~~ deleted (meaning there would be 7 separate log files for the week); compress the ~~file~~ but do it on the next cycle; do it in a fashion where the original contents of the file is copied before the original file's contents is deleted; do nothing if the file is empty; if the file is missing don't give an error; we should be able to do that with the following:		For example, if we wanted to rotate all of the .log files in our /var/log/ directory (some .log files will not be affected by this command) on a daily basis; keep the rotated files for 7 days before they are deleted (meaning there would be 7 separate log files for the week); compress the files but do it on the next cycle; do it in a fashion where the original contents of the file is copied before the original file's contents is deleted; do nothing if the file is empty; if the file is missing don't give an error; we should be able to do that with the following: