Re: Logs

[Justin Pasher <justinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Grant Peel wrote:
> Justin,
>
> Kewl!
>
> There are a few users in the home directory as well, and those users 
> do not have a logs directory. How will logrotate handle that? (I am 
> hoping you will say it just ignores a non existent path/file).
>
> -Grant

You will be safe. The wildcards simply use the shell's globbing 
functionality, which means that it will only return files that exist.

Justin Pasher

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Pasher" 
> <justinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:10 PM
> Subject: Re:  Logs
>
>
> > Grant Peel wrote:
> > > Hi Justin,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reply. FYI I am using UNIX (freebsd).
> > >
> > > Up tp this point, I have been using an sh script to rotate logs.
> > >
> > > The logs in question are the access_log and error_log in each one of 
> > > my (Apache) virtual hosts.
> > >
> > > logrotate looks like the cats meow!
> > >
> > > I have read the man page and it states to use wildcards with caution 
> > > (as always). So I have one question:
> > >
> > > Can I use a wildcard as such,
> > >
> > > /home/*/logs/access_log
> > >
> > > /home/*/logs/error_log
> > >
> > > The '*' being the wildcard to denote the home dir for
> > >
> > > virt_domain1.com
> > > virt_domain2.ca
> > > virt_domain3.net
> > > ...
> > >
> > > -Grant
> >
> > Wildcards are fine. The man pages problem say to use them with 
> > caution to avoid matching more files than you really intend. The 
> > easiest way to be sure is just test the results of the wildcard with ls.
> >
> > ls /home/*/logs/access_log
> >
> > If the results are what you expect, then you are good to go. You can 
> > also combine the two log filenames in the same logrotate rule to 
> > avoid duplicating your settings.
> >
> > Just keep in mind that with this setup, if a user has a file such as 
> > /home/username/logs/access_log, then it will be rotated too. However, 
> > if your setup doesn't allow users to create arbitrary 
> > directories/files like that, then there is no need to worry.
> >
> > --
> > Justin Pasher

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