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logrorate.d issue in generating files with proper size and name

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I tried to configure my logrotate.d as below, it generates files with funny names (ex: 0220420-20220421-20220422-20220423-20220424-20220425-20220426), I want to check is it working as expected since it is my first experience? As I am not sure why it creates files with zero sizes?

My expectation was:

  • rotate 7 times
  • per day
  • missing okay
  • notifempty
  • compress the files
  • max size of the file shouldn’t be more than 50MB
  • max age of files shouldn’t be more than 100 days

My config file in /etc/logrotate.d/myconfig is as below. Did I configure my configuration properly and the naming is correctly generated?

/data/meter-logs/messages_*[!.gz]
{
  rotate 7
  daily
  missingok
  notifempty
  compress
  maxsize 50M
  maxage 100
  postrotate
        syslog-ng-ctl reload > /dev/null
  endscript
}


my files is **/data/meter-logs/** folder:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3.5K Apr 26 19:28 messages_electricity_meter-dev
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 21 03:34 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220420
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 22 03:42 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220420-20220421
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 23 03:17 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220420-20220421-20220422
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 24 03:46 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220420-20220421-20220422-20220423
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 25 03:15 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220420-20220421-20220422-20220423-20220424
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 26 03:45 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220420-20220421-20220422-20220423-20220424-20220425
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   83M Apr 20 03:28 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220420-20220421-20220422-20220423-20220424-20220425-20220426
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 23 03:17 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220421
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 25 03:15 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220421-20220423
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   12K Apr 21 03:28 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220421-20220423-20220425
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 24 03:46 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220422
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 26 03:45 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220422-20220424
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5.3K Apr 22 03:28 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220422-20220424-20220426
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 25 03:15 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220423
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5.1K Apr 23 02:28 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220423-20220425
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 26 03:45 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220424
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5.5K Apr 24 03:28 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220424-20220426
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5.1K Apr 25 02:28 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220425
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5.5K Apr 26 03:28 messages_electricity_meter-dev-20220426
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 20 03:34 messages_electricity_meter-test
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 21 03:34 messages_electricity_meter-test-20220420
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 22 03:42 messages_electricity_meter-test-20220420-20220421
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 23 03:17 messages_electricity_meter-test-20220420-20220421-20220422
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 24 03:46 messages_electricity_meter-test-20220420-20220421-20220422-20220423
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 25 03:15 messages_electricity_meter-test-20220420-20220421-20220422-20220423-20220424
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Apr 26 03:45 messages_electricity_meter-test-20220420-20220421-20220422-20220423-20220424-20220425
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1.4G Apr  3 05:03 messages_electricity_meter-test-20220420-20220421-20220422-20220423-20220424-20220425-20220426

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