Logrotate files with date in the file name

Question

I am trying to configure logrotate in RHEL for tomcat6 logs. Currently, logrotate works fine for catalina.out log, it is rotated and compressed properly.

The problem

Answer 1

Something like this in /etc/cron.d/rotate_tomcat_logs:

# delete every log file over 100 days old, and compress every log file over 1 day old.
00 1 * * * root ( find /opt/tomcat/logs -name \*log\* -name \*.gz -mtime +100 -exec rm -f {} \; >/dev/null 2>&1 )
05 1 * * * root ( find /opt/tomcat/logs -name \*log\* ! -name \*.gz -mtime +1 -exec gzip {} \; >/dev/null 2>&1 )