See https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/177
> Am 24.05.2023 um 02:30 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer > <[email protected]>: > > Oh and there's more which IMO can be improved. > > If people take the currently named pattern: > - /var/log/mail.{info,warn,err,log}* > - /var/log/lpr.log* > - /var/log/{messages,debug,daemon}* > > the may accidentally delete quite some other files. e.g. anything that > starts with debug. > > Also, daemon is actually daemon.log . > > > The following would be at least a bit more restrictive: > /var/log/mail.{info,warn,err} /var/log/lpr.log > /var/log/{messages,debug,daemon.log} > /var/log/mail.{info,warn,err}.* /var/log/lpr.log.* > /var/log/{messages,debug,daemon.log}.* > > not perfect though, cause it could still select unrelated files It only matches compressed files though Maybe just drop the “*” and leave it up to the user
