I have a need to monitor files that look like this:
host one =
/path/to/base/app/App1/App1.{pidnumber}.log
/path/to/base/app/App2/App2.{pidnumber}.log
(yes the digits are there)... however if I monitor:
/path/to/base/app/App*/App*.log
it's too greedy, I end up with the archive version (app rolls it's logs to:
/path/to/base/app/App1.datestamp/App*.{pidnumber}.log
etc.
I think this could work if there was a way to put a singler character wildcard, OR a regex - unfortunatly, since I need the * later sgement, I can't seem to get this to work in regex
monitor:///path/to/base/app/App\d{1}\/App*.log
The path specified in monitor
is not a regular expression. There is no single character wildcard. But you could do this
[monitor:///path/to/base/app/App*/App*.log]
whitelist = /path/to/base/app/App\d{1}/App.*\.log
Because a whitelist (and the blacklist) are regular expressions.