diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bc032d5fc..dc8958de9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ of metrics collected and from how many plugins.
 - [#232](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/232): Fix bashism run during deb package installation. Thanks @yankcrime!
 - [#261](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/260): RabbitMQ panics if wrong credentials given. Thanks @ekini!
 - [#245](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/245): Document Exec plugin example. Thanks @ekini!
+- [#264](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/264): logrotate config file fixes. Thanks @linsomniac!
 
 ## v0.1.9 [2015-09-22]
 
diff --git a/etc/logrotate.d/telegraf b/etc/logrotate.d/telegraf
index 6a7dedfcf..f34017f07 100644
--- a/etc/logrotate.d/telegraf
+++ b/etc/logrotate.d/telegraf
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
     rotate 6
     daily
     missingok
+    dateext
+    copytruncate
     notifempty
-    nocreate
     compress
 }