diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 364c0b08..5eb71080 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ files/macosx-initd
 files/solaris-fail2ban.xml
 files/solaris-svc-fail2ban
 files/suse-initd
+files/fail2ban-logrotate
 files/cacti/fail2ban_stats.sh
 files/cacti/cacti_host_template_fail2ban.xml
 files/cacti/README
diff --git a/files/fail2ban-logrotate b/files/fail2ban-logrotate
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..67c6364a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/files/fail2ban-logrotate
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#
+# Gentoo:
+# http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-analyzer/fail2ban/files/fail2ban-logrotate?view=markup
+#
+# Debian:
+# https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/debian/debian/fail2ban.logrotate
+#
+# Fedora view:
+#  http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/fail2ban.git/tree/fail2ban-logrotate
+
+/var/log/fail2ban.log {
+    rotate 7
+    missingok
+    compress
+    postrotate
+      /usr/bin/fail2ban-client set logtarget /var/log/fail2ban.log 1>/dev/null || true
+    endscript
+}