系统时时刻刻都在产生日志，如果不及时清理，很快就会灌满硬盘，但如果要手工清理，又很麻烦。

这种情况下，logrotate 这个程序很好的完成这个任务。

logrotate 用来把旧的日志文件删除，并创建新的日志文件，我们把它叫做“转储”。

我们可以根据日志文件的大小，也可以根据其天数来转储，这个过程一般通过一个叫做crond的守护进程来执行，logrotate 还可以用于压缩日志文件，以及发送日志到指定的E-mail 。

logrotate 的配置文件是 /etc/logrotate.conf。

查看当前版本

在系统中使用命令来查看版本：

logrotate --version

一些使用的方法，请参考下面的内容：

查看使用手册

man logrotate

nginx 日志归档

在默认情况下，操作系统已经为我们配置了 nginx 的默认日志归档。

归档的配置文件为： /etc/logrotate.d/nginx

可以直接编辑这个文件。

/var/log/nginx/*.log
/var/log/nginx/src.isharkfly.com/*.log
{
        daily
        missingok
        rotate 14
        compress
        delaycompress
        notifempty
        create 0640 www-data adm
        sharedscripts
        prerotate
                if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \
                        run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \
                fi \
        endscript
        postrotate
                invoke-rc.d nginx rotate >/dev/null 2>&1
        endscript
}

对我们来说，我们虚拟主机的日志和 nginx 的日志在相同的目录下，只是在下面添加了一个文件夹。

所以，我们就在上面添加文件夹就行。

归档测试

配置文件完成修改后，可以对配置进行测试：

运行命令：

logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/nginx --debug

服务器上输出的内容为：

root@ns564012:/etc/logrotate.d# logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/nginx --debug
warning: logrotate in debug mode does nothing except printing debug messages!  Consider using verbose mode (-v) instead if this is not what you want.

reading config file /etc/logrotate.d/nginx
Reading state from file: /var/lib/logrotate/status
Allocating hash table for state file, size 64 entries
Creating new state
Creating new state
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Handling 1 logs

rotating pattern: /var/log/nginx/*.log
/var/log/nginx/src.isharkfly.com/*.log
 after 1 days (14 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/nginx/access.log
  Now: 2025-02-06 02:38
  Last rotated at 2025-02-06 00:00
  log does not need rotating (log has been rotated at 2025-02-06 00:00, which is less than a day ago)
considering log /var/log/nginx/error.log
  Now: 2025-02-06 02:38
  Last rotated at 2025-02-06 00:00
  log does not need rotating (log has been rotated at 2025-02-06 00:00, which is less than a day ago)
considering log /var/log/nginx/src.isharkfly.com/access.log
Creating new state
  Now: 2025-02-06 02:38
  Last rotated at 2025-02-06 02:00
  log does not need rotating (log has already been rotated)
considering log /var/log/nginx/src.isharkfly.com/error.log
Creating new state
  Now: 2025-02-06 02:38
  Last rotated at 2025-02-06 02:00
  log does not need rotating (log has already been rotated)
not running prerotate script, since no logs will be rotated
not running postrotate script, s

对我们来说，只需要日志进行归档就行，因为我们不希望日志内容占用过多的磁盘空间。