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Old 07-22-2010
Using logrotate to trim files that are created every 15 mins
I have an application (puppet) that generates report files every 15 minutes in the format:
/var/lib/puppet/reports/hostname.fqdn/report-201007221515.yaml
/var/lib/puppet/reports/hostname.fqdn/report-201007221530.yaml
..

I only really need to keep one days worth of these reports and am trying to use logrotate to keep it to that:
Code:
/var/lib/puppet/reports/*/* {
  missingok
  maxage 2
  rotate 0
  daily
}

However it's now 22nd July but when I run logrotate I get messages like:
Code:
considering log /var/lib/puppet/reports/virtase3.fqdn/201007201358.yaml   
  log does not need rotating

Showing it's not seeing log files from 2 days ago as needing removal.

Any suggestions of what to add to my logrotate config?
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