Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 6/20/06, John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:05:59PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote: >> > On 6/19/06, John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >I just moved some web server logs around. For now, I want them to be >> > >rotated monthly instead of weekly like the rest. In >> > >/etc/logrotate.d/httpd I put: >> > > >> > >/var/log/httpd/[!content.flashadengine.com]*log >> > > >> > >Is that going to do what I think it'll do? :-) I just want to be sure >> > >that logrotate isn't one of those things that's an exception, that >> > >there isn't some different way it understands :-) >> > >> > I suppose it would help if you told us what you think it will do. And >> > what are the names of the files that normally reside in >> > /var/log/hppd/. >> >> I thought that would be pretty clear... to rotate everything in >> /var/log/httpd/ except files that start with content.flashadengine.com >> >> Maybe I'm further off base than I thought :-) > > As far as I can tell, logrotate uses shell wild cards not regular > expressions. So to simplify your example, > [!flash]*.log > would refer to any file name that did not begin with "f", "l", "a", > "s", "h" and ended with .log > This is certainly not what you were trying for.
Well, bash has extended globbing features available with (shopt -s extglob) -- do 'man bash' and search for extglob ..BUT.. 1) it's not clear (to me, anyway) whether logrotate uses/honors bash globbing, or follows some other homegrown method 2) even it if works, depending on extglob features reduces portability/readability/maintainability -- you'd at least want to document it carefully 3a) it just looks awkward and ugly -- I'd be inclined to look for another way, even if I had to substitute some other cron operation for logrotate 3b) maybe multiple entries of each _desired_ file/pattern, and just omit the flash-pattern ..jim > > I asked about the names of the other files to see if there was a > possibility of wild-card inclusion rather than exclusion. > > Can you put the log files that you want to treat differently into a > directory of their own? > > carl -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
