newsyslog.conf and Apache log files

[Joe Auty]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Joe Auty <joe at 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.

Aha! That makes sense...

What alternatives are there then so that I don't have to type in log
file paths for each of my virtually hosted domains? How about:

/var/log/httpd/*_log


would this work?




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