logrotate.conf and wildcards

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 Greg_Wilson at aotx.uscourts.gov wrote:

> Using wild cards is fine.

But be careful!  Trailing wildcards will result in rotating 
already-rotated files and an exponetially growing number of files in the 
log directory.  So rotating /var/log/*/* is a Very Bad Idea (tm).


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> Hello,
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> I use syslog-ng on a centralized syslog server (RHEL4).  All my hosts
> get directories created under /var/log/hosts/servername.  So for
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> /var/log/hosts/server1
>           messages
>           mail.log
>           debug
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> /var/log/hosts/server2
>           messages
>           debug
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> Of course as servers get added, new directories are dynamically
> created.  My question is, can I use wildcards in my logrotate.conf
> file, to specify directories and files?
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> "/var/log/*/*" to rotate all files or at least "/var/log/*/messages"
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