1 The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of
2 log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate
3 allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of
4 log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly,
5 monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally,
6 logrotate runs as a daily cron job.