diff -Nur --no-dereference e-smith-apache-2.6.0.old/createlinks e-smith-apache-2.6.0/createlinks
--- e-smith-apache-2.6.0.old/createlinks	2022-02-18 22:15:22.484000000 -0500
+++ e-smith-apache-2.6.0/createlinks	2022-02-18 22:21:57.175000000 -0500
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 safe_symlink("restart", "root/etc/e-smith/events/$event/services2adjust/httpd-e-smith");
 event_link("systemd-reload", $event, "89");
 event_link("systemd-default", $event, "88");
+templates2events("/etc/logrotate.d/httpd", $event);
 
 #--------------------------------------------------
 # actions for console-save event
@@ -168,17 +169,19 @@
 
 $event = "ssl-update";
 templates2events("/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf", $event);
-safe_symlink("reload", "root/etc/e-smith/events/$event/services2adjust/httpd-e-smith");
+safe_symlink("reload", "root/etc/e-smith/events/$event/services2adjust/httpd-e-smith");
+
+#--------------------------------------------------
+# actions for post-install event
+#--------------------------------------------------
 
+$event = "post-install";
+templates2events("/etc/logrotate.d/httpd", $event);
 
-# Set up generic logfile timestamp renaming/symlinking
+#--------------------------------------------------
+# actions for post-upgrade event
+#--------------------------------------------------
+
+$event = "post-upgrade";
+templates2events("/etc/logrotate.d/httpd", $event);
 
-foreach (qw(
-    /var/log/httpd/error_log
-    /var/log/httpd/access_log
-    ))
-{
-    safe_touch "root/etc/e-smith/events/logrotate/logfiles2timestamp/$_";
-    safe_touch "root/etc/e-smith/events/post-install/logfiles2timestamp/$_";
-    safe_touch "root/etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/logfiles2timestamp/$_";
-}
diff -Nur --no-dereference e-smith-apache-2.6.0.old/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/logrotate.d/httpd/00notused e-smith-apache-2.6.0/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/logrotate.d/httpd/00notused
--- e-smith-apache-2.6.0.old/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/logrotate.d/httpd/00notused	2008-10-07 11:53:34.000000000 -0400
+++ e-smith-apache-2.6.0/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/logrotate.d/httpd/00notused	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#
-# We do not use logrotate to rotate apache controlled logfiles,
-# we reconfigure apache instead. No action required here.
-#
diff -Nur --no-dereference e-smith-apache-2.6.0.old/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/logrotate.d/httpd/10global e-smith-apache-2.6.0/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/logrotate.d/httpd/10global
--- e-smith-apache-2.6.0.old/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/logrotate.d/httpd/10global	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ e-smith-apache-2.6.0/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/logrotate.d/httpd/10global	2022-02-18 22:49:31.044000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/var/log/httpd/*log \{
+    create root root
+    missingok
+    notifempty
+    sharedscripts
+    rotate  {${'httpd-e-smith'}{'KeepNumberLog'} || $rsyslog{'KeepNumber'} || 10 }
+    size {${'httpd-e-smith'}{'MaxSizeLog'} || $rsyslog{'MaxSize'} || "100M";}
+    maxage {${'httpd-e-smith'}{'PurgeLengthLog'} || $rsyslog{'PurgeLength'} || 95;}
+    { $OUT = "#default compress see logrotate.conf" ; $OUT = "compress " unless ( (${'httpd-e-smith'}{'CompressLog'} || "disabled") eq "disabled" );}
+    delaycompress
+    postrotate
+        /bin/systemctl restart httpd-*.service > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
+    endscript
+\}