Logrotate

• Timer: logrotate.timer
• Service: logrotate.service
• Config files:
• /etc/logrotate.conf
• /etc/logrotate.d/

Force a rotation of logs:

logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.conf

Logrotate doesn't compress by default, but compression is relatively low cpu cost on modern systems. This author likes to compress logs by default by uncommenting line:

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

sed -i 's/^#compress/compress/' /etc/logrotate.conf