diff --git a/config/logrotate b/config/logrotate-sysSentry.conf
similarity index 73%
rename from config/logrotate
rename to config/logrotate-sysSentry.conf
index f54e7b3c44c50602a659d6b6107bcc3cb2fd4a8e..32f063fc217d846ac131714d03942b3f258cbf4e 100644
--- a/config/logrotate
+++ b/config/logrotate-sysSentry.conf
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 /var/log/sysSentry/*.log {
-	nocompress
+	create
+	compress
 	missingok
 	notifempty
 	copytruncate
-	rotate 2
+	rotate 4
 	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