can logrotate process all *.log in a directory tree?

Question

Logrotate can work on individual files or wildcarded files (*.log, for example) in a specified directory, but does it inherently have the ability to traverse a directory tree of arbitrary depth and process files it finds?

thanx

Answer 1

No, it doesn't. You can wildcard the directories though so if your tree has a small-ish known depth you could do something like:

   /a/* /a/*/* /a/*/*/*  {
       rotate 5
       weekly
   }

If you only have logs at the leaf only /a/*/*/* is needed.

"Please use wildcards with caution. If you specify *, logrotate will rotate all files, including previously rotated ones. A way around this is to use the olddir directive or a more exact wildcard (such as *.log)" -- logrotate man page