Learn how to use the Logrotate program to administer, back up, and monitor log files on Linux.

The examples described in this post work on Ubuntu and related Linux systems. Other systems might use different log file and configuration file names, but the process itself should be very similar.

Log rotation on Linux systems is more complicated than you might expect. Which log files are rotated, when and how often, whether or not the rotated log files are compressed, and how many ...

If you really want to see what's happening beneath the hood of your Linux distribution, you need to use log files.