If you ran through this quickly, one might simply create a definition as a wildcard, such as:
/home/sites/logs/*
Unfortunately, logrotate will read this literally and now will rotate compressed log files that were already in rotation, leaving you with a mess in your log directories like this:
/home/sites/logs/http-access.log.1.gz
/home/sites/logs/http-access.log.1.gz.1
/home/sites/logs/http-access.log.1.gz.1.1
/home/sites/logs/http-access.log.1.gz.1.1.1
/home/sites/logs/http-access.log.1.gz.1.1.1.1
And it just goes down hill from there. This exact thing happened to me cause I forgot to read the man page which clearly stated:
Please use wildcards with caution. If you specify *, log rotate 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).
So using wildcards are still acceptable, but use them with caution. As I had three types of files to rotate in this example, I found that I can string them together as follows:
/home/sites/logs/*.error /home/sites/logs/*.access /home/sites/logs/*.log
