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--- Begin Message ---Package: logrotate Version: 3.7.1-2 Severity: minor Hi, logrotate with the dateext extension happily rotates logs that have already been rotated, leading to wonderful file names like ella-20040509.gz-20060215-20060216-20060217-20060218-20060219 This happens as soon as a wildcard (/var/log/foo/* { dateext...}) is found in the configuration. Logrotate should exclude files matching the mask of a file name _generated_ by logrotate from rotation to allow wildcards to be used. Greetings Marc -- Package-specific info: Contents of /etc/logrotate.d total 7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79 Apr 7 2005 aptitude -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114 Dec 4 2002 cron-apt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111 Sep 26 09:04 dpkg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173 Jun 20 2004 exim4-base -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280 Jan 1 2002 ippl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79 Jan 30 2002 lvm-common -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 291 Feb 11 10:55 sysklogd -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.4-zgsrv Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages logrotate depends on: ii anacron 2.3-11 a cron-like program that doesn't g ii base-passwd 3.5.11 Debian base system master password ii cron 3.0pl1-92 management of regular background p ii libc6 2.3.6-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libselinux1 1.28-4 SELinux shared libraries Versions of packages logrotate recommends: ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:57:00AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > logrotate with the dateext extension happily rotates logs that have > already been rotated, leading to wonderful file names like > ella-20040509.gz-20060215-20060216-20060217-20060218-20060219 > > This happens as soon as a wildcard (/var/log/foo/* { dateext...}) is > found in the configuration. > > Logrotate should exclude files matching the mask of a file name > _generated_ by logrotate from rotation to allow wildcards to be used. This is no different to using a wildcard with logrotate without using dateext. It is documented behaviour: Please use wildcards with caution. If you specify *, logrotate will rotate all files, including previously rotated ones. A way around this is to use the olddir directive or a more exact wildcard (such as *.log). -- Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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