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Subject: Re: newsyslog.conf and Apache log files
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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.