[syslog-ng] Logrotate - recursive directories

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:38:08 EDT, Ken Garland said:
> I have syslog-ng setup to add hostname dynamically. When a new server is
> pointed to the central log server it creates a
> /var/log/syslogs/$hostname dir and all logs from that host are put in
> there. in /etc/log/rotate.g/syslog-ng I have tried putting in
> /var/log/syslogs/* and this will not work.
> 
> Is there a way for logrotate to search directories recursively?

Think outside the box. ;)

/var/log/syslogs/$hostname/$day will automagically start a new log each day.

Then 'find /var/log/syslogs -type f -mtime +31 -exec rm {} \;' for the cleanup. ;)
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