It's about not-working rotation by file size. Rotation by date works fine. Here is snippet from our configuration: wrapper.logfile=/apps/hybris/hybris/log/tomcat/console-ROLLNUM.log wrapper.logfile.format=LPDZM wrapper.logfile.loglevel=INFO wrapper.logfile.maxfiles=365 wrapper.logfile.rollmode=SIZE wrapper.logfile.maxsize=200M
RedHat Enterprise Linux log rotation since 3.5.28