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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  continue writing (appending) to the previous log file forever.  Note that  there is a very small time slice between copying  the  file  and  truncating  it,  so  some logging data might be lost.  When this option is used, the create option will have