[CentOS] Antwort: logrotate and regular expressions

Frank.Brodbeck at klingel.de Frank.Brodbeck at klingel.de
Thu Sep 24 07:33:18 UTC 2009


Hi,

"Sol Fulop" <sfulop at core101.com>  schrieb am 23.09.2009 17:33:32:

> I am trying to use logrotate to rotate our web logs for our various 
> vhosted sites to cut down on space and rotate out old logs that are 
> not necessary to keep around personally.  What Im curious to find 
> out, is how supported extended regular expressions is within the 
> logrotate.conf file.

Ok... logrotate(8) is unpleasantly unspecific about that, though
from googling [1], and reading glob(3) I believe that globbing is
available through (g)libc which logrotate is linked to:

# ldd /usr/sbin/logrotate
        libpopt.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libpopt.so.0 (0x0000003c8c000000)
        libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x0000003c88000000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003c86800000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x0000003c87000000)
        libsepol.so.1 => /lib64/libsepol.so.1 (0x0000003c87c00000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003c86400000)

So I guess you can use glob(7) (as stated in [1]).

Frank.
 
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/kplug-list@kernel-panic.org/msg10293.html



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