how to run a logrotate hourly

Question

I created a program.conf that logrotate my logs hourly in an EC2 instance. the logrotate works well when i force it command (by sudo logrotate program.conf --verbose --force<

Answer 1

You will need to add the job in your crontab

crontab -e

And then add a job that runs every hour 14 minutes past,

14 * * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate /home/sammy/logrotate.conf --state /home/sammy/logrotate-state

Taken from : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-manage-logfiles-with-logrotate-on-ubuntu-16-04

Also additionally check if the crontab is actually running by doing

service crontab status

if it is stopped you can start it by doing

service crontab start