# * save rotated logs into a gzipped timestamped backup
    # * log file timestamp (controlled by 'dateformat') includes seconds too. This
    #   ensures that logrotate can generate unique logfiles during each rotation
    #   (otherwise it skips rotation if 'maxsize' is reached multiple times in a
    #   day).
    # * keep only 5 old (rotated) logs, and will discard older logs.