[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ log files rotation daily

Wed Feb 1 14:23:37 GMT 2012

On 1 Feb 2012, at 03:44, Roshan Pradeep wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I want to rotate the RabbitMQ log files in daily basis like support in log4j. The only log rotate support I found is rabbitmqctl rotate_logs <suffix>. 

From http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/man1/rabbitmqctl.1.html:

  rotate_logs [suffix]
      instruct the RabbitMQ node to rotate the log files. The RabbitMQ
      broker will attempt to append the current contents of the log file
      to the file with the name composed of the original name and the
      suffix. It will create a new file if such a file does not already
      exist. When no  suffix is specified, the empty log file is
      simply created at the original location; no rotation takes place.
      When an error occurs while appending the contents of the old log
      file, the operation behaves in the same way as if no suffix was
      specified. This command might be helpful when you are e.g. writing
      your own logrotate script and you do not want to restart the
      RabbitMQ node.

> 
> Could some one please explain how to achieve the daily log file rotation. Also I am not sure what kind of suffix expect from rabbitmqctl rotate_logs.
> 

Have you tried adding rotate_logs to the daily cron script?