How can Logrotate be used to rotate log files every hour?

To achieve cutting log files every hour, you can configure Logrotate by following these steps:

1. Open the terminal and log in as the root user.
2. The directory for log rotation configurations is located at /etc/logrotate.d/
3. Every hour
4. Access the “hourly” file using the sudo vi command.
5. The log file located at /path/to/log/file should be rotated every hour, with a total of 24 rotations being kept. The log file should be created if it does not exist, compressed, and compressed after the next rotation. If the log file is missing, it should be ignored. If the log file is empty after rotation, no notification should be sent.
6. The full path of the log file that needs to be split:
7. hourly: specifies the interval to be every hour.
8. Keep the most recent 24 rotated log files.
9. create: If the log file being cut does not exist, create an empty file.
10. Compress: use gzip to compress segmented log files.
11. delaycompress: compress the log files from the previous cycle on a delay.
12. missingok: Ignore errors if the log file is not found.
13. notifempty: Do not rotate the log file if it is empty.
14. Save and close the file.
15. Run logrotate in debug mode on the configuration file located at /etc/logrotate.d/hourly.
16. Please rotate the logs in the hourly directory using sudo.
17. The log file is located at /path/to/log/file.1.gz.
18. Show me the contents of the “log” directory.

Note: The above steps are a general method for using Logrotate to rotate log files every hour on a Linux system. The specific steps may vary depending on the system and Logrotate version.