How to delete Tomcat Access Log after n days?

Question

I only would like to keep the Access Logs of the last n days created by Tomcat Access Log Valve. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/valve.html#Access%20Log%20Val

Answer 1

You can try to create logrotate config:

#cat /etc/logrotate.d/tomcat
/var/log/tomcat/*.log {
        su tomcat tomcat
        copytruncate  
        daily  
        rotate 6  
        compress  
        missingok
}

"su tomcat tomcat" - i added for avoiding logrotate error on wrong permissions