On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:06:27PM -0500, Mike M wrote: | On Tuesday 01 April 2003 10:43, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: | > I currently have a daemon logging each day's worth of activity into a | > separate daily log with the daemon-month.date.year format. | > Unfortunately, I cannot change the options of HOW it is logged or what | > it is named. | > | > I really only want to keep a weeks worth of logs, and have tried to use | > logrotate to handle all the rotation and removal. In short, it doesn't | > seem to be working. From what I can tell, logrotate is better suited at | > rotating a single log file, not logs that change the filename daily | > (such as an apache log).
What is the logrotate config you have tried?
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|I am not sure if logrotate can handle filenames like Mon.*.log.
It can. Just be sure to anchor the glob. For example, using
"/var/log/samba/smb*" is really bad because the first rotated file
(smb_foo.1) will match as well. The above anchor with "*.log"
prevents "<...>log.1" from matching.
-D
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