4 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/control b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/control
index ae698e1edb..0696eca7cb 100644
--- a/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/control
+++ b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Standards-Version: 3.7.2
 
 Package: rabbitmq-server
 Architecture: all
-Depends: erlang-nox, adduser
+Depends: erlang-nox, adduser, logrotate
 Description: An AMQP server written in Erlang
  RabbitMQ is an implementation of AMQP, the emerging standard for high
  performance enterprise messaging. The RabbitMQ server is a robust and
diff --git a/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/dirs b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/dirs
index 48db317ff3..1b15b0c34f 100644
--- a/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/dirs
+++ b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/dirs
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ usr/share/man
 usr/share/linda/overrides
 var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia
 var/log/rabbitmq
+etc/logrotate.d
 
diff --git a/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rabbitmq-server.logrotate b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rabbitmq-server.logrotate
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..002adfdc14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rabbitmq-server.logrotate
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/var/log/rabbitmq/*.log {
+        size=2M
+        missingok
+        rotate 10
+        compress
+        delaycompress
+        notifempty
+        create 644 rabbitmq rabbitmq
+}
+
+/var/log/rabbitmq/*.log.back /var/log/rabbitmq/*.err {
+        weekly
+        missingok
+        rotate 10
+        compress
+        delaycompress
+        notifempty
+        create 644 rabbitmq rabbitmq
+}
diff --git a/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rules b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rules
index e230aec535..606bbfd1d1 100644
--- a/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rules
+++ b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rules
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ install/rabbitmq-server::
 	rm $(RABBIT_LIB)/LICENSE*
 	mv $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/sbin/rabbitmqctl $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/sbin/rabbitmqctl_real
 	cp debian/rabbitmqctl_wrapper $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/sbin/rabbitmqctl
+	cp debian/rabbitmq-server.logrotate $(DEB_DESTDIR)etc/logrotate.d/rabbitmq-server
 	cp $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/share/man/man1/rabbitmqctl.1.gz $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/share/man/man1/rabbitmqctl_real.1.gz
 	chmod a+x $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/sbin/rabbitmqctl
 	echo "Tag: usr-lib-in-arch-all" > $(DEB_DESTDIR)usr/share/linda/overrides/rabbitmq-server