Grant Peel wrote:
Justin,
Kewl!
There are a few users in the home directory as well, and those users
do not have a logs directory. How will logrotate handle that? (I am
hoping you will say it just ignores a non existent path/file).
-Grant
You will be safe. The wildcards simply use the shell's globbing
functionality, which means that it will only return files that exist.
Justin Pasher
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Grant Peel wrote:
Hi Justin,
Thanks for the reply. FYI I am using UNIX (freebsd).
Up tp this point, I have been using an sh script to rotate logs.
The logs in question are the access_log and error_log in each one of
my (Apache) virtual hosts.
logrotate looks like the cats meow!
I have read the man page and it states to use wildcards with caution
(as always). So I have one question:
Can I use a wildcard as such,
/home/*/logs/access_log
/home/*/logs/error_log
The '*' being the wildcard to denote the home dir for
virt_domain1.com
virt_domain2.ca
virt_domain3.net
...
-Grant
Wildcards are fine. The man pages problem say to use them with
caution to avoid matching more files than you really intend. The
easiest way to be sure is just test the results of the wildcard with ls.
ls /home/*/logs/access_log
If the results are what you expect, then you are good to go. You can
also combine the two log filenames in the same logrotate rule to
avoid duplicating your settings.
Just keep in mind that with this setup, if a user has a file such as
/home/username/logs/access_log, then it will be rotated too. However,
if your setup doesn't allow users to create arbitrary
directories/files like that, then there is no need to worry.
--
Justin Pasher
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