Here is another script I need to keep handy for the future. My logrotate script for Play Framework applications. The important thing here is the parameter “copytruncate”. I tried many times without it and the result was always the same: after the logrotate was done no more logging was made by the application. “copytruncate” solved this
/opt/myapp/logs/*.log {
missingok
notifempty
size 50M
copytruncate
create 0644 root root
rotate 9999
}
How to run logrotate manually:
logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/myapp
Tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and Play Framework 2.3
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