How do I configure log rotation for Zypper and Yum?

To configure log rotation for your endpoints you should run do as follows:

Configure Zypper Logrotate for SUSE: 

For SUSE endpoints, there is a logrotate built-in utility. Hence, the only thing needs to be done is to change the existing configuration (for help with Zypper check here):

1. Connect to SUSE endpoint

2. go to /etc/logrotate.d 

3. Edit the folder  zypper.lr:

vi /etc/logrotate.d/zypper.lr

Update the configuration to match the following: 

• maxage stores 7 days of logs
•  rotate indicates that only 10 rotated logs should be kept. Thus, the oldest file will be removed on the 11th subsequent run.
• size sets the minimum size for the rotation to take place to 10M. In other words, each log will not be rotated until it reaches 10MB.

4. Repeat step 3 for folders zypp-history.lr and zypp-refresh.lr

5. Restart endpoint 

Configure yum Logrotate

This configuration is relevant for the following operating systems: 

• RHEL 6/7
• CentOS 6/7
• Amazon Linux
• Oracle Linux

If logrotate is not yet installed on your endpoint run :

yum install logrotate

After you have installed logrotate, please complete the following steps: 

1. Edit the yum file: 

vi /etc/logrotate.d/yum 

2. Update the configuration to match the following:

{
    weekly
    rotate 3
    size 10M
    compress
    delaycompress
}

• weekly means that the tool will attempt to rotate the logs on a weekly basis. Other possible values are daily and monthly.
• rotate 3 indicates that only 3 rotated logs should be kept. Thus, the oldest file will be removed on the fourth subsequent run.
• size=10M sets the minimum size for the rotation to take place to 10M. In other words, each log will not be rotated until it reaches 10MB.
• compress and delaycompress are used to tell that all rotated logs, with the exception of the most recent one, should be compressed.

3. Restart endpoint