https://www.ramdyne.nl/enSat, 07 Mar 2026 00:09:00 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/ramdyne<p>So a few months ago I found that freeradius on one of my machines was logging all transactions in a daily log file. After a few years this accumulated to a large number of files that started to gobble up too much disk space. Together with a colleague I created the following logrotate:</p> <div class="code"><pre class="code text"><a id="rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-1" name="rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-1" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-1"></a>/var/log/freeradius/radacct/*/detail-* { <a id="rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-2" name="rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-2" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-2"></a> daily <a id="rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-3" name="rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-3" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-3"></a> rotate 90 <a id="rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-4" name="rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-4" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-4"></a> compress <a id="rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-5" name="rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-5" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-5"></a> notifempty <a id="rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-6" name="rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-6" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_cbc6e85000674b0dbb18f95fca09a9ee-6"></a>} </pre></div> <p>Using wildcards with logrotate is asking for trouble, as the manual page warns, but we thought we knew better... The result was a log directory containing loads of the following:</p> <div class="code"><pre class="code text"><a id="rest_code_f5d072251ad2444eabdc72b32638bc36-1" name="rest_code_f5d072251ad2444eabdc72b32638bc36-1" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_f5d072251ad2444eabdc72b32638bc36-1"></a>server:/var/log/freeradius/radacct/host# ls -al <a id="rest_code_f5d072251ad2444eabdc72b32638bc36-2" name="rest_code_f5d072251ad2444eabdc72b32638bc36-2" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_f5d072251ad2444eabdc72b32638bc36-2"></a>-rw------- 1 freerad freerad 0 2013-09-03 06:25 detail-20130902 <a id="rest_code_f5d072251ad2444eabdc72b32638bc36-3" name="rest_code_f5d072251ad2444eabdc72b32638bc36-3" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_f5d072251ad2444eabdc72b32638bc36-3"></a>-rw------- 1 freerad freerad 0 2013-09-05 06:25 detail-20130902.1.gz <a 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href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_f5d072251ad2444eabdc72b32638bc36-48"></a>server:/var/log/freeradius/radacct/host# </pre></div> <p>Fixing logrotate is left for another time. But how do you get rid of all the 0 length files and how do you rename the files that <em>do</em> have content to something useful? Most howto's suggest <code class="docutils literal">basename</code> or Perl's <code class="docutils literal">rename</code>, but they all can't handle what I call "recursive" file extensions. Here's what I came up with:</p> <div class="code"><pre class="code text"><a id="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-1" name="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-1" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-1"></a># Delete all 0 length files <a id="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-2" name="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-2" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-2"></a>server:/var/log/freeradius/radacct/host# find . -size 0 -delete <a id="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-3" name="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-3" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-3"></a># Create a list of mv commands for all remain files <a id="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-4" name="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-4" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-4"></a>server:/var/log/freeradius/radacct/192.168.59.6# ls *.gz | awk -F '.' '{ print "mv " $0 " " $1 ".1.gz" }' &gt; commandfile <a id="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-5" name="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-5" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-5"></a># Execute the commands (dot space commandfile executes all commands in <a id="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-6" name="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-6" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-6"></a># commandfile, who knew?) <a id="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-7" name="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-7" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-7"></a>server:/var/log/freeradius/radacct/host# . commandfile <a id="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-8" name="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-8" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-8"></a># And clean up after ourselves <a id="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-9" name="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-9" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-9"></a>server:/var/log/freeradius/radacct/host# rm commandfile <a id="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-10" name="rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-10" href="https://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/#rest_code_6f8603432c29408ba9d509312ebebe8b-10"></a>server:/var/log/freeradius/radacct/host# </pre></div>awkbashenglishfindlinuxlogrotatehttps://www.ramdyne.nl/posts/fun-with-logrotate-and-wildcards/Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:47:30 GMT