Bug#183544: debian-policy: bad wildcard usage proposal for logrotate

[Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.8.0
Severity: minor

Hi,

in "11.8 Log files" the example

/var/log/foo/* {
...
}

should be

/var/log/foo/*.log {
...
}

according to the logrotate man page:

       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).

bye,
  Roland

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux atari 2.4.18 #1 Thu Feb 20 18:57:09 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro