How To Install logrotate on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install logrotate on CentOS 8.
What is logrotate
The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job. Install the logrotate package if you need a utility to deal with the log files on your system.
We can use yum or dnf to install logrotate on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install logrotate.
Install logrotate on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install logrotate using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install logrotate
Install logrotate on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install logrotate using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install logrotate
How To Uninstall logrotate on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the logrotate package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove logrotate
logrotate Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate
/etc/logrotate.conf
/etc/logrotate.d
/etc/logrotate.d/btmp
/etc/logrotate.d/wtmp
/etc/rwtab.d/logrotate
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/0770611fb2586f99b722af13432d6b0aec93b1
/usr/sbin/logrotate
/usr/share/doc/logrotate
/usr/share/doc/logrotate/ChangeLog.md
/usr/share/licenses/logrotate
/usr/share/licenses/logrotate/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/logrotate.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/logrotate.8.gz
/var/lib/logrotate
/var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install logrotate on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.