Access log options

[krispy]

Is there an option or command somewhere to change the log files to daily archives, rather than monthly? I run reports locally daily/weekly and my analysis software chokes due to loading the entire month each time.

[Liona]

This can be done for two minutes. Log in to your VPS by SSH. Get root access on shell

su -

or just login at root if you are still not well secure your ssh. Next, edit this file

nano /etc/logrotate.conf

This is a very short file with few creating log options and also this file contain explanation of these options. What you must do is to change this:

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

with this

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
monthly

Finaly, restart syslog:

service syslog restart