We have one Linux RHEL Machine where different log files are generating everyday with current date time under "/var/log/audit/" location.
File name are in below format:
audit_2021-11-24.trace
audit_2021-11-25.trace
audit_2021-11-26.trace
audit_2021-11-27.trace
audit_2021-11-28.trace
audit_2021-11-29.trace
I want to rotate the oldest file and delete that file once file count reach 5. For this I configured the below under "/etc/logrotate.d/audit" file
/var/log/audit/audit_*-*-*.trace {
copytruncate
dateext
dateformat -%Y-%m-%d
rotate 5
ifempty
missingok
compress
}
In CRON Job I configured the below to run in every minute.
* * * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/audit
But it's not working, this is rotating every file and not deleting the old file (which file are rotated).
