Source: logrotate Section: admin Priority: important Maintainer: Paul Martin Build-Depends: libpopt-dev, debhelper (>= 5), quilt, libselinux1-dev [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64] Standards-Version: 3.6.2 Package: logrotate Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, cron | anacron | fcron, base-passwd (>= 2.0.3.4) Recommends: mailx Description: Log rotation utility The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job.