/path/to/the/log {
    missingok
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    daily   
    rotate 7
    postrotate
        /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
    endscript
    compress
}

然后在午夜创建一个cron作业以删除旋转的文件：

30 2 * * * nice -n 19 ionice -c2 -n7 rm -f /path/to/the/log/file.1