Recursion support

[ghost]

While in logrotate.conf you can do /var/log/.log /var/log//.log /var/log///.log {} to setup a default catch-all for logs, I'd rather see a recursion option that you could put under /var/log/*.log that would recursively look for *.log anywhere in /var/log/, no matter how many directories deep (within reason). It seems a bit cleaner to me that way.

Example:

/var/log/*.log {
    copytruncate
    daily
    compress
    recurse
}

[inikolaev]

logrotate uses glob internally so an easy workaround could be enabling globstar if using Bash 4 or higher. This should allow to use the following syntax /var/log/**/*.log.

The globstar can be enabled with the following command:

shopt -s globstar

Some details on globstar option: http:https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/globstar-new-bash-globbing-option

[ghost]

Ah, thank you! I don't think these boxes are on bash 4.X, but that's certainly an option down the road. Didn't realize logrotate used bash in such a way.

So in this case, I would begin the logrotate configuration with shopt -s globstar. Is that correct?

[inikolaev]

No, you should not put this into config. It's the command to enable globstar option in your shell. I haven't tried it myself with logrotate yet though.

[LorenzoAncora]

@inikolaev I have the same issue and enabling globstar does not work: logrotate fails with verifying log file path failed, because the matching ends at **.

(logrotate 3.11.0, bash 4.4.23)

[tmccombs]

@inikolaev that workaround doesn't work. afaik, logrotate uses the glob(3) c funtion to do expansion, not bash. so setting an option in bash has no effect on logrotate.

[inikolaev]

@inikolaev that workaround doesn't work. afaik, logrotate uses the glob(3) c funtion to do expansion, not bash. so setting an option in bash has no effect on logrotate.

You might be right - I haven't realized that those are two different globs.

[kdudka]

Shell options for globbing only affect how the shell interpreter itself expands globs while interpreting shell code. It cannot affect globbing done by external binary programs in any way.

[Crapshit]

Same here on RHEL 7 with logrotate 3.8.6 and bash 4.2.46(2)-release.
@kdudka: It would be great to have a feature as mentioned from @LorenzoAncora in issue #177