Logrotate is very useful command for automatically reduce some disk space, for example noticed that the disk was extremely full by Apache access log, MySQL queries log or NGINX server logs. Once you have configured  test your configuration manually can run the logrotate.

# logrotate --force $CONFIG_FILE

--force  logrotate to force the rotation,
 
# logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/apache

Simple configurations are,



/var/log/httpd/access_log

{

    weekly

    missingok

    rotate 3        

    compress

    delaycompress

    dateext

    notifempty

    sharedscripts

    postrotate

   

 if [ -f /var/run/apache2.pid ]; then

     /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > /dev/null

  fi

        endscript

}