# see "man logrotate" for details # global options do not affect preceding include directives # rotate log files weekly weekly # use the adm group by default, since this is the owning group # of /var/log/syslog. su root adm # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs rotate 4 # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones create # use date as a suffix of the rotated file #dateext # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed #compress # packages drop log rotation information into this directory include /etc/logrotate.d # system-specific logs may also be configured here. /var/log/procmail.log { rotate 5 daily compress }