Why does my CentOS logrotate run at random times?
- by Mike Pennington
I put a logrotate configuration file in /etc/logrotate.d/ and expected the logs to rotate at a consistent time; however, they do not... log rotation times are seemingly random +/- one hour.
Why are the log rotation start times random, and how can I change this?
Informational: my logrotate config file looks like this...
/opt/backups/network/*.conf {
copytruncate
rotate 30
daily
create 644 root root
dateext
maxage 30
missingok
notifempty
compress
delaycompress
postrotate
## Create symbolic links in daily/
PATH=`/usr/bin/dirname $1`;
FILE=`/bin/basename $1`;
/bin/ln -s $1 $PATH/daily/$FILE
endscript
}
