https://alexanderbakin.com/tags/c/Recent content in C on Alexander's BlogHugoen-usThu, 20 Aug 2026 17:54:01 +0400https://alexanderbakin.com/logrotate-fix/Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://alexanderbakin.com/logrotate-fix/<p>A follow-up to <a href="https://alexanderbakin.com/logrotate-wildcard-bug/">the wildcard bug post</a> from last year.</p> <h2 id="picking-the-thread-back-up">Picking the Thread Back Up</h2> <p>The rename workaround, <code>*.example.com</code> to <code>_.example.com</code>, fully resolved the operational problem. Retention became predictable again, and there was no pressing reason to go further. But a workaround isn&rsquo;t a fix, and the actual bug was still sitting in logrotate&rsquo;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.</p>