How to fix log rotation on a Plesk server Print

Problem Description

• Log rotation is not working on a Plesk server

Problem Resolution

Disable and re-enable log rotation in Plesk. Go to the domain in Plesk, choose Logs > Log Files dropdown in upper right corner > Log Rotation and ensure it’s configured sanely. If it’s more than one domain, you can do this for all of them via shell with this:

for DOMAIN in $(plesk bin domain -l); do 
plesk bin site -u $DOMAIN -log_rotate false
plesk bin site -u $DOMAIN -log_rotate true 
done 
# Force 30 days log rotation server-wide
plesk bin settings -s logrotate_force=true plesk bin settings -s logrotate_period=30

You can alternatively configure Plesk to force log rotation via GUI (alternative to the last command above).

If the file taking up a ton of space does *not* end in .processed, run the following commands:

DOMAIN=mydomain.com 
plesk sbin statistics --calculate-one --domain-name=$DOMAIN 
/usr/local/psa/logrotate/sbin/logrotate /usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.d/$DOMAIN

If the file taking up a ton of space is only those ending with .processed, run this to have logrotate run on its own:

DOMAIN=mydomain.com 
/usr/local/psa/logrotate/sbin/logrotate /usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.d/$DOMAIN

Or have Plesk do this for all domains at once with this command:

plesk daily ExecuteStatistics


If the above command doesn't do the trick try these instead:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics --calculate-all
/usr/local/psa/logrotate/sbin/logrotate -f /usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.d/*

If that doesn't do the trick, run it in debug mode to see what it's having issues with:

/usr/local/psa/logrotate/sbin/logrotate -d /usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.d/*

Details on how Plesk manages log rotation here.