diff --git a/setup/container/docker_janitor b/setup/container/docker_janitor
index 4f7ef8d35..285a9e09e 100755
--- a/setup/container/docker_janitor
+++ b/setup/container/docker_janitor
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ for container in $containers; do
         logrotate_config=$(mktemp)
         { echo "$logrotate_template" | LOG_VOLUME="$logdir" envsubst; } > "${logrotate_config}"
 
-        logrotate -f "${logrotate_config}"
+        logrotate "${logrotate_config}" # -f is not required since we are size based
 
         find "${logdir}" -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 3 -type d -exec rm -rf {}  + # since we logrotate only till depth 3