diff -Nur --no-dereference e-smith-base-5.8.1.old/createlinks e-smith-base-5.8.1/createlinks
--- e-smith-base-5.8.1.old/createlinks	2022-04-16 23:39:45.153000000 -0400
+++ e-smith-base-5.8.1/createlinks	2022-04-16 23:46:57.368000000 -0400
@@ -307,8 +307,9 @@
 templates2events("/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpd.service.d/50koozali.conf", $event);
 event_link("systemd-journald", $event, "02");
 event_link("fix-startup", $event, "05");
-event_link("rotate_logfiles", $event, "05");
 event_link("init-accounts", $event, "05");
+event_link("logrotate-migrate", $event, "06");
+event_link("rotate_logfiles", $event, "07");
 event_link("set-hostname", $event, "10");
 event_link("rmmod-bonding", $event, "10");
 event_link("conf-startup", $event, "10");
@@ -446,8 +447,8 @@
 templates2events("/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpd.service.d/50koozali.conf", $event);
 event_link("systemd-journald", $event, "02");
 event_link("fix-startup", $event, "05");
-event_link("rotate_logfiles", $event, "05");
 event_link("init-accounts", $event, "05");
+event_link("rotate_logfiles", $event, "07");
 event_link("init-passwords", $event, "10");
 event_link("conf-startup", $event, "10");
 event_link("user-rsshd", $event, "16");
@@ -466,8 +467,9 @@
 templates2events("/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpd.service.d/50koozali.conf", $event);
 event_link("systemd-journald", $event, "02");
 event_link("fix-startup", $event, "05");
-event_link("rotate_logfiles", $event, "05");
 event_link("init-accounts", $event, "05");
+event_link("logrotate-migrate", $event, "06");
+event_link("rotate_logfiles", $event, "07");
 event_link("conf-startup", $event, "10");
 event_link("user-lock-passwd", $event, "15");
 event_link("group-modify-unix", $event, "15");
@@ -583,7 +585,8 @@
 
 $event = "logrotate";
 
-event_link("rotate_logfiles", $event, "05");
+event_link("logrotate-migrate", $event, "06");
+event_link("rotate_logfiles", $event, "07");
 event_link("purge-old-logs", $event, "75");
 
 safe_symlink("restart", "root/etc/e-smith/events/$event/services2adjust/rsyslog");
diff -Nur --no-dereference e-smith-base-5.8.1.old/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/logrotate-migrate e-smith-base-5.8.1/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/logrotate-migrate
--- e-smith-base-5.8.1.old/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/logrotate-migrate	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ e-smith-base-5.8.1/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/logrotate-migrate	2022-04-16 23:59:07.124000000 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# this script is to migrate old symlink log to regular file in order 
+# to be handled by logrotate
+
+#known files that could be symlinks
+FILES="/var/log/cron
+/var/log/maillog
+/var/log/messages
+/var/log/secure
+/var/log/spooler
+/var/log/boot.log
+/var/log/httpd/admin_access_log
+/var/log/httpd/admin_error_log
+/var/log/httpd/access_log
+/var/log/httpd/error_log
+/var/log/httpd/fpbx_error_log
+/var/log/httpd/fpbx_access_log
+/var/log/httpd/bkpc_access_log
+/var/log/httpd/bkpc_error_log
+/var/log/httpd/issoqlog_access_log
+/var/log/httpd/isoqlog_access_log
+/var/log/httpd/isoqlog_error_log
+/var/log/httpd/pki_access_log
+/var/log/httpd/pki_error_log
+/var/log/pluto/pluto.log"
+
+
+#counter
+found=0
+
+# could do also $(find /var/log/ -type l)
+for f in $FILES
+do
+  if [ -L "$f" ]; then
+     echo "Processing $f"
+     mylink=$(readlink "$f")
+     unlink $f
+     touch $f
+     if [ -f "$mylink" ]; then
+        cp --attributes-only "$mylink" "$f"
+     fi
+     ((found+=1))
+  fi
+done
+
+# restart the needed services
+if [ $found > 0 ] ; then
+   /usr/bin/systemctl restart httpd-*.service > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
+   /usr/bin/systemctl restart rsyslog.service > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
+fi
+