# Logrotate issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [July 12, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/logrotate-issues/10673 "2023-07-12T16:29:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cwilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@cwilde](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/cwilde)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/logrotate-issues/10673/1 "2023-07-12T16:29:57Z")
I am having issues with logrotate and would like some help. I have exim installed on a system and I am trying to get the logs to rotate at 2359. I have a cron job setup to rotate the log but it appears that it will also run at random times. I do not have my config in /etc/logrotate.d/ directory. 59 23 \* \* \* /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.exim/exim \> /dev/null Here is the exim rotate file : /var/log/exim/main.log /var/log/exim/panic.log /var/log/exim/reject.log { su exim exim compress compresscmd /usr/bin/gzip uncompresscmd /usr/bin/gunzip dateext dateformat -%Y-%m-%d rotate 30 missingok } Here you can see that they are rotating at random times : -rw-r----- 1 exim exim 269 Jul 10 23:10 panic.log-2023-07-10.gz -rw-r----- 1 exim exim 77696 Jul 10 23:56 reject.log-2023-07-10.gz -rw-r----- 1 exim exim 115169 Jul 10 23:56 main.log-2023-07-10.gz Any thoughts on why they rotate at random times? On other linux systems this works fine. ---
**Author:** ![dali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@dali](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/dali)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/logrotate-issues/10673/2 "2023-07-12T17:58:04Z")
Check the last entries in the files, they were probably not changed between last entry and the log rotation time. ---
**Author:** ![cwilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@cwilde](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/cwilde)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/logrotate-issues/10673/3 "2023-07-12T18:13:25Z")
Yes, that does appear to be the case for most of them. I will keep an eye on it. Thanks.