[CentOS] logrotate and regular expressions

Wed Sep 23 15:51:04 UTC 2009
Sol Fulop <sfulop at core101.com>

Is there a way around that??? Like run a command to get all the
filenames then pipe it to the config directive
/path/to/logs/access_log.www.*.(com|org|net|us) {} in logrotate.conf?

Sol

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Luciano Rocha
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:39 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] logrotate and regular expressions

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:33:32AM -0400, Sol Fulop wrote:
> 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.  More specifically, will logrotate be smart 
> enough to decipher the
> following:
> 
> /path/to/logs/access_log.www.*.(com|org|net|us)

AFAIK, logrotate doesn't support regular expressions, only wildcards (*
and ?).

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