How to create a logrotate job, that archives the logs once a month into a tar.gz and keep the logs for 12 months ?

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Issue

  • How to create a logrotate job, that archives the logs once a month into a tar.gz and keep the logs for 12 months ?
  • The log directory is /opt/lampp/logs and log files to be rotate in this directory are: access_log, error_log, ssl_request_log.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4,5,6
  • logrotate

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