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On Linux, a flexible solution is logrotate

It allows logs to be archived based on age and/or size; archives logs may be compressed; versions may be capped: etc

When using log rotate on a running system which is not coded to handle its log files being closed/moved by an external process, use the copytruncate option as it will preserve the open file handle(s) being used by other programs.

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