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You need to install logratate  Sudo apt-get update Sudo apt-get install logrotate For confirm logrotate successfully installed or not run : logrotate Default logrotate configuration are present in : /etc/logrotate.conf Example :  /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out {      copytruncate       weekly       rotate 52       compress       missingok       create 640 tomcat7 adm       size 5M } What does it means : Copytruncate : Truncate  the  original  log  file  to  zero size in place after creating a  copy,  instead  of  moving  the  old  log  file  and  optionally creating a new one.  It can be used when some program cannot be told to close its  logfile  and  thus  might  c...