delete catalina.*.log older than 30 days using logrotate

rootuser · 01-13-2016, 12:23 PM

I am looking for ways to use logrotate to delete "catalina.*.log" which is older than 30 days.
By default catalina.log is rotating daily. I would like to know the procedure to delete these files older than 30days using logrotate and not using a script.

Habitual · 01-13-2016, 12:58 PM

Welcome to LQ!
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...1/#post5130825
gives the "maxage" option of logtwatch.

Code:

man logwatch

documents it.

Please let us know if you have any additional questions.

rootuser · 01-13-2016, 01:08 PM

I looked at the thread and i am facing the same situation. Using maxage deletes all the files.

thras0 · 01-17-2016, 03:45 AM

Hello,

This is very strange. According to the man pages :

Code:

maxage count
              Remove rotated logs older than <count> days. The age is only checked if  the  logfile
              is to be rotated. The files are mailed to the configured address if maillast and mail
              are configured.

Should solve your log problem.

Ar you running any other log related software on your system ?

Regards.

## - update

Have you tried :

Code:

        daily
        rotate 30

in your logrotate file ?