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Trouble getting logs to autorotate with logrotate

Asked by Joseph Polanco

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Gnome 3.36.8

$ logrotate --version
logrotate 3.14.0

It's been impossible to get logs to rotate automatically once they reach a size of 125M. Here's the config file saved to /etc/logrotate.d:

/home/App/Logs/*.log
{
    missingok
    size 125M
    rotate 14
    create
}

What's missing?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can the logrotate process read and manipulate the files in the folder? Have you checked permissions? Why are you storing logs in your home when there is /var/log where you can store them...?

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Joseph Polanco (jo-polanco) said : 		#2

This solution here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/mnn5xd/trouble_getting_logs_to_autorotate_with_logrotate/gtz4xzq/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 resolved the issues I was having but thanks for your queries :)