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How to Use Logrotate to Manage Logs on Ubuntu

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Jan 20, 2017

Logrotate is a tool used by the system administrators to ease the management of large log files generated by the system services. The most important features of logrotate are automatic log rotation, log compression, log removal and mailing the log files. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use logrotate to manage the log files generated by the services running on your Linux VPS.
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