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thank you, you put me in the right direction with<a href="http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html" rel="ugc"></a> and this <a href="https://serversforhackers.com/managing-logs-with-logrotate" rel="ugc"></a>
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thank you, you put me in the right direction withhttp://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html and this https://serversforhackers.com/managing-logs-with-logrotate

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the links are:<br />
logrotation: <a href="http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html" rel="ugc">http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html</a><br />
logrotation tut: <a href="https://serversforhackers.com/managing-logs-with-logrotate" rel="ugc">https://serversforhackers.com/managing-logs-with-logrotate</a>
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the links are:
logrotation: http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html [http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html]
logrotation tut: https://serversforhackers.com/managing-logs-with-logrotate [https://serversforhackers.com/managing-logs-with-logrotate]

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I have a lot of small compressed apache2 log files on my ubuntu 16.04 server. 32bit, intel, 40gb, 2gb ram, small low hit website. Im somewhat new to server admin, how does apache2/ubuntu determine when to compress a log file, including access.log, error.log, syslog?
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I have a lot of small compressed apache2 log files on my ubuntu 16.04 server. 32bit, intel, 40gb, 2gb ram, small low hit website. Im somewhat new to server admin, how does apache2/ubuntu determine when to compress a log file, including access.log, error.log, syslog?

Why would ubuntu server 16.04 compress so many small access.log.gz files?

Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.

Ubuntu

Linux is a UNIX-like open source operating system with hundreds of distinct distributions, including: Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, and Arch Linux. Linux is generally associated with web and database servers, but has become popular in many niche industries and applications.

Linux

Security is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The main goal of security is protecting assets, and an asset is anything of value and worthy of protection.  Information Security is a discipline of protecting information assets from threats through safeguards to achieve the objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability or CIA for short. On the other hand, disclosure, alteration, and disruption (DAD) compromise the security objectives.