Logrotation on tomcat related logs not working.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Log files related to tomcat are not getting rotated.

    # cat /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat/var/opt/app/tomcat/catalina/catalina*.* {
        copytruncate
       daily
       rotate 7
       compress
       missingok
       size 100M
    }
    
  • Logs are getting rotated manually but does not work when scheduled as cron job (automatically).

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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