File: //usr/share/mysql/mariadb.logrotate
# This is the MariaDB configuration for the logrotate utility
#
# Note that on most Linux systems logs are written to journald, which has its
# own rotation scheme.
#
# Read https://mariadb.com/kb/en/error-log/ to learn more about logging and
# https://mariadb.com/kb/en/rotating-logs-on-unix-and-linux/ about rotating logs.
/var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log /var/lib/mysql/mariadb.log /var/log/mariadb/*.log {
  # Depends on a mysql@localhost unix_socket authenticated user with RELOAD privilege
  su mysql mysql
  # If any of the files listed above is missing, skip them silently without
  # emitting any errors
  missingok
  # If file exists but is empty, don't rotate it
  notifempty
  # Run monthly
  monthly
  # Keep 6 months of logs
  rotate 6
  # If file is growing too big, rotate immediately
  maxsize 500M
  # If file size is too small, don't rotate at all
  minsize 50M
  # Compress logs, as they are text and compression will save a lot of disk space
  compress
  # Don't compress the log immediately to avoid errors about "file size changed while zipping"
  delaycompress
  # Don't run the postrotate script for each file configured in this file, but
  # run it only once if one or more files were rotated
  sharedscripts
  # After each rotation, run this custom script to flush the logs. Note that
  # this assumes that the mariadb-admin command has database access, which it
  # has thanks to the default use of Unix socket authentication for the 'mysql'
  # (or root on Debian) account used everywhere since MariaDB 10.4.
  postrotate
    if test -r /etc/mysql/debian.cnf
    then
      EXTRAPARAM='--defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf'
    fi
    if test -x /usr/bin/mariadb-admin
    then
      /usr/bin/mariadb-admin $EXTRAPARAM --local flush-error-log \
        flush-engine-log flush-general-log flush-slow-log
    fi
  endscript
}