Log rotating with a Bash script

Question

I have the following issue:

I have an application, which continuously produces output to stderr and stdout. The output of this application is captured in a logfile (the

Answer 1

You can leverage rotatelogs (docs here). This utility will decouple your script's stdout from the log file, managing the rotation in a transparent way. For example:

your_script.sh | rotatelogs /var/log/your.log 100M

will automatically rotate the output file when it reaches 100M (can be configured to rotate based on a time interval).