# rotate logfiles weekly
weekly
# use the syslog group by default, since this is the owning group
# of /var/log/syslog.
su root syslog
# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4
# create new (empty) logfiles after rotating old ones
create
# use date as a suffix of the rotated file
#dateext
# uncomment this if you want your logfiles compressed
#compress
# packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d