Which utility is used to make automate rotation of a log?

Question

I was running a binary and in between network went down. Process was still running with its parent "1".
I re-logged into the system and find the running process and trigger $ kill -9 . After doing that I was trying to rerun the binary but it was not working with error message "Port is already being used" but I again checked there was no binary with such name. How I can resolve such issue ? Please help me .

Answer 1

logrotate command is used to make automate rotation of log.
Syntax of the command is:

logrotate [-dv] [-f|] [-s|] config_file+

It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. This command is mainly used for rotating and compressing log files. This job is done every day when a log file becomes too large. This command can also be run by giving on command line. We can done force rotation by giving –f option with this command in command line. This command is also used for mailing. We can give –m option for mailing with this command. This option takes two arguments one is subject and other is recipient name.