Logrotate configuration

[PsySc0rpi0n]

Hello,
I have set the following configuration for logrotate in /etc/logrotate.d/my-app

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/path/to/my-app/debug.log {
    rotate 3
    maxsize 100M
    dateext
    dateformat -%d-%m-%Y
    maxage 31
}

But the result is not being what I expected. What I want is that debug.log file don't exceed 100MB and when 100MB are reached, a new debug.log file is created, and when there are 3 old debug files (100MB each), the older one gets deleted to be able to save a newer one. Instead, this is what I am getting:

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0 Feb 20 00:00 debug.log
447M Feb 15 08:47 debug.log-14-02-2021
868M Feb 18 21:49 debug.log-16-02-2021
418M Feb 20 21:23 debug.log-20-02-2021

So, is this wrong for what I want to do or what am I missing?

[peter_irich]

Perhaps, this log grows very quickly and achieves value from maxsize early than cron will be run.

Peter.

[PsySc0rpi0n]

Perhaps, this log grows very quickly and achieves value from maxsize early than cron will be run.

Peter.

Ok, good point. Will check that,
But apparently, the config I have should perform what I describe, right?

[peter_irich]

Yes, I think this config is right.
But log is not must grow such quickly. It is need to find which program or daemon writes to it.

[drasar]

I guess that you may shorten logrotate run frequency. Usually logrotate is configured to be run by cron daily. And if your app logs hundreds MB of logs every day, then logrotate doesn't have a chance to rotate them properly on every 100 MB in size.

So try to reconfigure the logrotate default run interval e.g. for one hour.

You won't probably achieve exactly 100 MB maximally for each log file, but at least you will be much closer than now. But still it depends how much are the logs spread in time...