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I'm really struggling to understand how logrotate works when running a command within a shell file of my own, and how it doesn't.

The command in question is:

rclone -L -vv --log-file "/home/mike/tmp/qqq.log"  sync "/media/mike/W10 D drive/My Documents/"  remote:MyDocuments_M17A_from_Linux

What I would like:
I would like this qqq.log file to be checked quite often, say every 10 min., to see whether it has exceeded a given size, say 1 MB. And if it has, to rotate the file. rclone with the -vv option produces copious output, deliberately (i.e. to try to understand to get logrotate working for this use case).

There's a moderately helpful tutorial here, but it still leaves me in the dark:

1. How are you meant to configure rotation of logs from your own non-system processes? Are you meant to stick lines at the bottom of /etc/logrotate.conf? This is what I have done (under "#system-specific logs may be configured here"):

   /home/mike/tmp/qqq.log { notifempty size 1M daily create 0664 root root rotate 3 }
   later: I now realise you can also put individual files in /etc/logrotate.d - no great complexity there.

2. Is it the case that by default logrotate only runs once a day, by virtue of the file /etc/cron.daily/logrotate?

3. Does that mean that if I want much more frequent checking I should perhaps set up a cron job to do this, running (in this example) every 10 minutes?

4. Are you meant to run logrotate <config file> as root? I ask this question because I have tried both as root and as user. User didn't seem to work.

A link to a beginner's guide to this sort of setup, which can't be that uncommon, would be helpful. I have searched but most of what I've found doesn't give you a step-by-step guide.

I'm really struggling to understand how logrotate works when running a command within a shell file of my own, and how it doesn't.

The command in question is:

rclone -L -vv --log-file "/home/mike/tmp/qqq.log"  sync "/media/mike/W10 D drive/My Documents/"  remote:MyDocuments_M17A_from_Linux

What I would like:

I would like this qqq.log file to be checked quite often, say every 10 min., to see whether it has exceeded a given size, say 1 MB. And if it has, to rotate the file. rclone with the -vv option produces copious output, deliberately (i.e. to try to understand to get logrotate working for this use case).

There's a moderately helpful tutorial here, but it still leaves me in the dark:

1. How are you meant to configure rotation of logs from your own non-system processes? Are you meant to stick lines at the bottom of /etc/logrotate.conf? This is what I have done (under "#system-specific logs may be configured here"):

   /home/mike/tmp/qqq.log {
     notifempty
     size 1M
     daily
     create 0664 root root
     rotate 3
   }
   

later: I now realise you can also put individual files in /etc/logrotate.d - no great complexity there.

2. Is it the case that by default logrotate only runs once a day, by virtue of the file /etc/cron.daily/logrotate?

3. Does that mean that if I want much more frequent checking I should perhaps set up a cron job to do this, running (in this example) every 10 minutes?

4. Are you meant to run logrotate <config file> as root? I ask this question because I have tried both as root and as user. User didn't seem to work.

A link to a beginner's guide to this sort of setup, which can't be that uncommon, would be helpful. I have searched but most of what I've found doesn't give you a step-by-step guide.

I'm really struggling to understand how logrotate works when running a command within a shell file of my own, and how it doesn't.

The command in question is:

rclone -L -vv --log-file "/home/mike/tmp/qqq.log"  sync "/media/mike/W10 D drive/My Documents/"  remote:MyDocuments_M17A_from_Linux

What I would like:
I would like this qqq.log file to be checked quite often, say every 10 min., to see whether it has exceeded a given size, say 1 MB. And if it has, to rotate the file. rclone with the -vv option produces copious output, deliberately (i.e. to try to understand to get logrotate working for this use case).

There's a moderately helpful tutorial here, but it still leaves me in the dark:

1. How are you meant to configure rotation of logs from your own non-system processes? Are you meant to stick lines at the bottom of /etc/logrotate.conf? This is what I have done (under "#system-specific logs may be configured here"):

   /home/mike/tmp/qqq.log { notifempty size 1M daily create 0664 root root rotate 3 }
   later: I now realise you can also put individual files in /etc/logrotate.d - no great complexity there.

2. Is it the case that by default logrotate only runs once a day, by virtue of the file /etc/cron.daily/lograte?

3. Does that mean that if I want much more frequent checking I should perhaps set up a cron job to do this, running (in this example) every 10 minutes?

4. Are you meant to run logrotate <config file> as root? I ask this question because I have tried both as root and as user. User didn't seem to work.

A link to a beginner's guide to this sort of setup, which can't be that uncommon, would be helpful. I have searched but most of what I've found doesn't give you a step-by-step guide.

I'm really struggling to understand how logrotate works when running a command within a shell file of my own, and how it doesn't.

The command in question is:

rclone -L -vv --log-file "/home/mike/tmp/qqq.log"  sync "/media/mike/W10 D drive/My Documents/"  remote:MyDocuments_M17A_from_Linux

What I would like:
I would like this qqq.log file to be checked quite often, say every 10 min., to see whether it has exceeded a given size, say 1 MB. And if it has, to rotate the file. rclone with the -vv option produces copious output, deliberately (i.e. to try to understand to get logrotate working for this use case).

There's a moderately helpful tutorial here, but it still leaves me in the dark:

1. How are you meant to configure rotation of logs from your own non-system processes? Are you meant to stick lines at the bottom of /etc/logrotate.conf? This is what I have done (under "#system-specific logs may be configured here"):

   /home/mike/tmp/qqq.log { notifempty size 1M daily create 0664 root root rotate 3 }
   later: I now realise you can also put individual files in /etc/logrotate.d - no great complexity there.

2. Is it the case that by default logrotate only runs once a day, by virtue of the file /etc/cron.daily/logrotate?

3. Does that mean that if I want much more frequent checking I should perhaps set up a cron job to do this, running (in this example) every 10 minutes?

4. Are you meant to run logrotate <config file> as root? I ask this question because I have tried both as root and as user. User didn't seem to work.

A link to a beginner's guide to this sort of setup, which can't be that uncommon, would be helpful. I have searched but most of what I've found doesn't give you a step-by-step guide.

I'm really struggling to understand how logrotate works when running a command within a shell file of my own, and how it doesn't.

The command in question is:

rclone -L -vv --log-file "/home/mike/tmp/qqq.log"  sync "/media/mike/W10 D drive/My Documents/"  remote:MyDocuments_M17A_from_Linux

What I would like:
I would like this qqq.log file to be checked quite often, say every 10 min., to see whether it has exceeded a given size, say 1 MB. And if it has, to rotate the file. rclone with the -vv option produces copious output, deliberately (i.e. to try to understand to get logrotate working for this use case).

There's a moderately helpful tutorial here, but it still leaves me in the dark:

1. How are you meant to configure log rotation from your own non-system processes? Are you meant to stick lines at the bottom of /etc/logrotate.conf? This is what I have done (under "#system-specific logs may be configured here"):

   /home/mike/tmp/qqq.log { notifempty size 1M daily create 0664 root root rotate 3 }

2. Is it the case that by default logrotate only runs once a day, by virtue of the file /etc/cron.daily/lograte?

3. Does that mean that if I want much more frequent checking I should perhaps set up a cron job to do this, running (in this example) every 10 minutes?

4. Are you meant to run logrotate <config file> as root? I ask this question because I have tried both as root and as user. User didn't seem to work.

A link to a beginner's guide to this sort of setup, which can't be that uncommon, would be helpful. I have searched but most of what I've found doesn't give you a step-by-step guide.

I'm really struggling to understand how logrotate works when running a command within a shell file of my own, and how it doesn't.

The command in question is:

rclone -L -vv --log-file "/home/mike/tmp/qqq.log"  sync "/media/mike/W10 D drive/My Documents/"  remote:MyDocuments_M17A_from_Linux

What I would like:
I would like this qqq.log file to be checked quite often, say every 10 min., to see whether it has exceeded a given size, say 1 MB. And if it has, to rotate the file. rclone with the -vv option produces copious output, deliberately (i.e. to try to understand to get logrotate working for this use case).

There's a moderately helpful tutorial here, but it still leaves me in the dark:

1. How are you meant to configure rotation of logs from your own non-system processes? Are you meant to stick lines at the bottom of /etc/logrotate.conf? This is what I have done (under "#system-specific logs may be configured here"):

   /home/mike/tmp/qqq.log { notifempty size 1M daily create 0664 root root rotate 3 }
   later: I now realise you can also put individual files in /etc/logrotate.d - no great complexity there.

2. Is it the case that by default logrotate only runs once a day, by virtue of the file /etc/cron.daily/lograte?

3. Does that mean that if I want much more frequent checking I should perhaps set up a cron job to do this, running (in this example) every 10 minutes?

4. Are you meant to run logrotate <config file> as root? I ask this question because I have tried both as root and as user. User didn't seem to work.

A link to a beginner's guide to this sort of setup, which can't be that uncommon, would be helpful. I have searched but most of what I've found doesn't give you a step-by-step guide.