My Play Framework logrotate configuration

Posted by on April 26, 2018

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

Linux, Play Framework,

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