How to use logrotate to manage log files in Linux | Linux Today

How to use logrotate to manage log files in Linux

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Sep 19, 2014

Log files contain useful information about what is going on within the system. They are often inspected during troubleshooting processes or server performance analysis. For a busy server, log files may grow quickly into very large sizes. This becomes a problem as the server will soon run out of space.

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