Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:25:50 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog.conf and Apache log files Message-ID: <4439sh507l.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4CAE02AB.1090009@netmusician.org> (Joe Auty's message of "Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:26:03 -0400") References: <4CAE02AB.1090009@netmusician.org>
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Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> writes: > Hello, > > I have the following entry for dealing with my Apache log files: > > /var/log/httpd/* 644 2 * $M1D0 GBJ > /var/run/httpd.pid 30 > > > Unfortunately, this has created these big long log files such as the > following: > > httpderror_log.2.bz2.2.bz2.2.bz2.1.bz2.1.bz2.1.bz2.0.bz2 > > How can I prevent these dumb log file names from being created? Don't use wildcards in newsyslog.conf. What's happening is "httperror_log.2.bz2" gets rotated into "httperror_log.2.baz2.1.bz2", because it matches the filename glob you specified.
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