Can logrotate apply multiple rotate rules?

[PsySc0rpi0n]

so whats stopping you from using systemd.timer as opposed to cron?

I had this working with cron in that past. I see no need to change it now. I want to keep the thread focused in cron and logrotate if possible. After I get this working, I may try systemd.time or whatever that is.

But in the meantime, I read a bit more and did the follwoing:

Created a file named 'myfile' in:

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/etc/logrotate.d

and set the following configs in it for logrotate:

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/media/wdelements/debug.log {
    rotate 5
    daily
    copytruncate
    size 50M
    dateext
    dateformat -%d%m%Y
    maxage 31
}

Then, I created a bah script inside

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/etc/cron.hourly

With the following content:

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#!/bin/bash

if [ -f /etc/logrotate.d/myfile ]; then
	logrotate --verbose /etc/logrotate.d/myfile
else
	echo "File not found!"
fi

And despite logrotate is set to run daily by default, I think this should do the trick, no?

[PsySc0rpi0n]

I'm reviving this thread of mine.

In the meantime I had to re-install my Debian due to some hardware problems. I bought a new SSD because the old was was with hardware failures.
So, this said, I'm again trying to setup logrotate and cron/anacron. But I'm not sure I have this correctly set.

With anacron installed, cron jobs are kind of over ruled by anacron, if I understand correctly.

So, I added a file in /etc/logrotate.d/my-rotate-rules telling the rules I want for the file in question and I verified that inside /etc/anacrontab there are entreies to run cron jobs daily, weekly and monthly. So, I presume this is all I need.

Am I correct?

Edited:

I didn't remember my last post in this thread. I'll try to replicate it.