logrotate cron job not rotating certain logs

Question

I added two scripts in \"logrotate.d\" directory for my application logs to be rotated. This is the config for one of them:

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Answer 1

SELinux was restricting the access to logrotate on log files in directories which does not have the required SELinux file context type. "/var/log" directory has "var_log_t" file context, and logrotate was able to do the needful. So the solution was to set this on my application log files and it's parent directory:

semanage fcontext -a -t var_log_t 
restorecon -v