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Bug#1036658: release-notes: 5.1.8. rsyslog creates fewer log files - mail.log is not dropped



See https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/177

Am 24.05.2023 um 02:30 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org>:

Oh and there's more which IMO can be improved.

If people take the currently named pattern:
- /var/log/mail.{info,warn,err,log}*
- /var/log/lpr.log*
- /var/log/{messages,debug,daemon}*

the may accidentally delete quite some other files. e.g. anything that
starts with debug.

Also, daemon is actually daemon.log .


The following would be at least a bit more restrictive:
 /var/log/mail.{info,warn,err} /var/log/lpr.log /var/log/{messages,debug,daemon.log}
 /var/log/mail.{info,warn,err}.* /var/log/lpr.log.* /var/log/{messages,debug,daemon.log}.*

not perfect though, cause it could still select unrelated files 

It only matches compressed files though 

Maybe just drop the “*” and leave it up to the user 

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