diff --git a/config/logrotate b/config/logrotate
deleted file mode 100644
index e85511850d43b0e900e00338464ae1df0c80349c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/config/logrotate
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-/var/log/sysSentry/*.log {
-	compress
-	missingok
-	notifempty
-	copytruncate
-	rotate 2
-	size +4096k
-        hourly
-}
diff --git a/config/logrotate-sysSentry.conf b/config/logrotate-sysSentry.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf5f9947802821fbe54d5cb469cde069e3f92d31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/logrotate-sysSentry.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# keep 4 hours worth of backlogs
+rotate 4
+
+# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
+create
+
+# compress log files
+compress
+
+# if a log file does not exist, go no to the next one without an error msg
+missingok
+
+# do not rotate the log if it is empty
+notifempty
+
+copytruncate
+
+# ignore any following matches of a log file.
+# Note that order is significant, it will not overwrite and take the first match.
+# require logrotate >= 3.21.0
+ignoreduplicates
+
+/var/log/sysSentry/sysSentry.log {
+	rotate 8
+	size +4096k
+}
+
+/var/log/sysSentry/cpu_sentry.log {
+	rotate 2
+	size +2048k
+}
+
+/var/log/sysSentry/*.log {
+	size +4096k
+}
diff --git a/src/sh/logrotate-sysSentry.cron b/src/sh/logrotate-sysSentry.cron
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..64d02f9cf8fb6fc36e6952cae4dca750090f98bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/sh/logrotate-sysSentry.cron
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+TMPF=`mktemp /tmp/logrotate-sysSentry.XXXXXXXXX`
+
+/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate-sysSentry.conf -v --log=$TMPF -s /var/lib/logrotate-syssentry/logrotate.status
+EXITVALUE=$?
+if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
+	/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE], for details, see /var/log/sysSentry/logrotate.log"
+	/bin/logger -t logrotate -f $TMPF
+fi
+rm -rf $TMPF
+rm -rf /var/lib/logrotate-syssentry/logrotate.status
+exit $EXITVALUE