Using logrotate to only compress and delete old files without rotating

Question

I want to compress some log files which have name format as abc.log.yyyy-MM-dd and then delete the compressed log file (abc.log.yyyy-MM-dd.gz) after x days.I don't want logrotate to rotate files(i.e. create new files), I only want it to compress and delete the compressed files after x days.

I tried using this pattern to only compress files:

To Compress files:

/var/log/management/abc.log.*[!.gz] su x y daily nocreate missingok compress dateext dateformat rotate 6 #If I don't provide this parameter, files are deleted as soon as they are compressed } To delete compressed files after x days: /var/log/management/abc.log.*.gz* { su x y daily rotate x maxage x } 

After 2 execution of logrotate, the result is as follows:

abc.log.2019-05-20.gz.1.gz

abc.log.2019-05-21.gz.1

abc.2019-05-22.gz

The compressed and rotated files is compressed again.

Can someone tell the exact regex pattern for filename that should be used

Answer 1

Replace

/var/log/management/abc.log.*[!.gz] 

with

/var/log/management/abc.log.*[0-9] 

Your combination of dateext with an empty dateformat is a nice way avoiding additional numbers in the filename!
When somebody else finds this answer, the next line is important:

nocreate 

And when you want to delete these files after 60 days, use

postrotate find /var/log/management -name "abc.log.*gz" -type f -mtime +60 -exec rm -f {} \; endscript