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.
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
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