diff --git a/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rotate-event-logs.service b/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rotate-event-logs.service
index fdeefd4..8f3a2bc 100644
--- a/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rotate-event-logs.service
+++ b/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rotate-event-logs.service
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 [Unit]
-Description=Rotates the event logs
+Description=Rotate the event logs
 
 [Service]
-Type=oneshot
-ExecStart=/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/logrotate.rsyslog
+Type=simple
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/rotate-event-logs.sh
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rotate-event-logs.sh b/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rotate-event-logs.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5a8c5cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rotate-event-logs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+while true; do
+    sleep 60
+    /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/logrotate.rsyslog
+    ec=$?
+    if [ $ec -ne 0 ] ; then
+        echo "logrotate failed ($ec)"
+    fi
+done
diff --git a/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rotate-event-logs.timer b/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rotate-event-logs.timer
deleted file mode 100644
index ae1185e..0000000
--- a/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rotate-event-logs.timer
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=Run rotate-event-logs.service every minute
-
-[Timer]
-OnActiveSec=60
-OnUnitActiveSec=60
-
-[Install]
-WantedBy=timers.target
diff --git a/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_%.bbappend b/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_%.bbappend
index 7e28280..c426937 100644
--- a/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-common/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_%.bbappend
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 SRC_URI += "file://rsyslog.conf \
            file://rsyslog.logrotate \
            file://rotate-event-logs.service \
-           file://rotate-event-logs.timer \
+           file://rotate-event-logs.sh \
            file://rsyslog-override.conf \
 "
 
@@ -13,11 +13,12 @@
 
 do_install_append() {
         install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/rotate-event-logs.service ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
-        install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/rotate-event-logs.timer ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
         install -d ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/rsyslog.service.d
         install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/rsyslog-override.conf \
                         ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/rsyslog.service.d/rsyslog-override.conf
+        install -d ${D}${bindir}
+        install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/rotate-event-logs.sh ${D}/${bindir}/rotate-event-logs.sh
         rm ${D}${sysconfdir}/rsyslog.d/imjournal.conf
 }
 
-SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} += " rotate-event-logs.service rotate-event-logs.timer"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} += " rotate-event-logs.service"