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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:51:03 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: newsyslog blanket roll question
Message-ID:  <20011102125103.N4360@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011102124956.A1702@keyslapper.org>; from leblanc%2Bfreebsd@keyslapper.org on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:49:57PM -0500
References:  <20011102124956.A1702@keyslapper.org>

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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Hey all.  Quick newsyslog.conf question:

[snip]

> My  question is can  I do a blanket  roll and just  HUP Apache
> once  if I  configure  Apache to  use logfiles  that  fit the  pattern
> http*log and just roll them as follows:
> 
> /var/log/http*log             644   5   *  $W6D0  Z  /var/run/http.pid
> 
> I don't see any  indication in the manpage that this  will or will not
> work, so  I thought I'd  pop the question out  here. I could  just try
> this, but I don't want to hose the logging if I can help it.

newsyslog(8) has no support for globbing. It will not work how you
want.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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