diff --git a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/cron.daily/cloud-cleanup b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/cron.daily/cloud-cleanup
deleted file mode 100755
index 9d254d3fbb4..00000000000
--- a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/cron.daily/cloud-cleanup
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# /etc/cron.daily/cloud-cleanup: cleanup old cloudstack logs
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-
-cd /
-output=$(find /var/log/cloud -mtime +7 -size +1M -exec rm -v '{}' \; )
-logger -t cloud "cloud-cleanup cronjob: cleaning up logfiles in /var/log/cloud older than 7 days and more than 1M in size"
-
-[ "$output" != "" ] && logger -t cloud  $output
-[ -z "$output"  ] && logger -t cloud  "No files removed"
-
-exit 0
diff --git a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/cloud b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/cloud
index 420fce23e18..3fedd5e32ec 100644
--- a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/cloud
+++ b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/cloud
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 # to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
 # "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 # with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-# 
+#
 #   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-# 
+#
 # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
 # software distributed under the License is distributed on an
 # "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 # under the License.
 /var/log/cloud.log {
         rotate 4
-        daily
         size 10M
         missingok
         notifempty
diff --git a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/conntrackd b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/conntrackd
index 0229cd7e8c5..1c37c4c80d5 100644
--- a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/conntrackd
+++ b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/conntrackd
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 /var/log/conntrackd-stats.log {
-    daily
     size 10M
     rotate 2
     missingok
diff --git a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/dnsmasq b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/dnsmasq
index 2f917855190..99815d856f8 100644
--- a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/dnsmasq
+++ b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/dnsmasq
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 /var/log/dnsmasq.log {
-    daily
     size 10M
     missingok
     rotate 5
diff --git a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/haproxy b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/haproxy
index 858fe2a1c3a..28da41c2ede 100644
--- a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/haproxy
+++ b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/haproxy
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 /var/log/haproxy.log {
-    daily
     rotate 5
     missingok
     notifempty
     size 10M
-    postrotate  
+    postrotate
       /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/rsyslog.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
     endscript
 }
diff --git a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/ppp b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/ppp
index 2004e77ff0f..624b4aed25e 100644
--- a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/ppp
+++ b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/ppp
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors {
-	daily
 	size 10M
 	rotate 5
 	missingok
diff --git a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog
index 5803c43d875..5a104b3e52b 100644
--- a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog
+++ b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /var/log/syslog
 {
 	rotate 7
-	daily
 	size 50M
 	missingok
 	notifempty
@@ -26,7 +25,6 @@
 /var/log/messages
 {
 	rotate 10
-	daily
 	size 50M
 	missingok
 	notifempty