Today I had to manually rotate a couple of logs since they had generated a filesize of over 1.8GB of pure text. This was done by issuing the command logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/file_to_be_rotated In my case I had to rotate my firewall log /var/log/firewall described in a custom made file, /etc/logrotate.d/firewall logrotate -v -f /etc/logrotate.d/firewall -v Verbose […]