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Rotates, compresses, and mails system logsThe logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of logs on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate provides automatic rotation, compression (gzip by default), removal and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file exceeds a certain size.
Version: 3.21.0 License: GPL-2
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| Maintainers | ctreleaven |
| Categories | sysutils |
| Homepage | https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate |
| Platforms | darwin |
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Port notes
To use logrotate:
* See 'man logrotate' for configuration options.
* Enable daily log rotation with this command.
$ sudo port load logrotate A startup item has been generated that will aid in starting logrotate with launchd. It is disabled by default. Execute the following command to start it, and to cause it to launch at startup:
sudo port load logrotate
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