How i configure logrotate to not delete my log files after rotation?

Question

There's a way to do this?

Answer 1

In your logrotate.conf (or the equivilent logrotate.d file), change the line that says "

rotate 10

(your number may be different) to a bigger number. That will tell it to keep that many days of logs. You can make it 36500, which would last you 100 years.

Answer 2

Setting aside the point that rotation involves deletion... ;-)

It looks like you can simply add the word 'copy' to the appropriate file (likely in /etc/logrotate.d). For example, an apache2 logrotate script would look like this:

/var/log/apache2/*.log {
    weekly
    missingok
    rotate 52
    compress
    delaycompress
    notifempty
    copy
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
    	if [ -f "`. /etc/apache2/envvars ; echo ${APACHE_PID_FILE:-/var/run/apache2.pid}`" ]; then
    		/etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null
    	fi
    endscript
}

Try that, and see if it does what you want.