Fixing logrotate's Glob Confusion

A follow-up to the wildcard bug post from last year. Picking the Thread Back Up The rename workaround, *.example.com to _.example.com, fully resolved the operational problem. Retention became predictable again, and there was no pressing reason to go further. But a workaround isn’t a fix, and the actual bug was still sitting in logrotate’s own source, waiting to bite the next person who names a file after a wildcard domain. This week I finally sat down and found it properly, instead of just renaming files around it. ...

August 20, 2026 · Alexander Bakin