How To Install logrotate on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install logrotate
on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install logrotate.
Install logrotate on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install logrotate
using yum
by running the following command:
Install logrotate on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install logrotate
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall logrotate on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the logrotate
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install logrotate
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.