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| -rw-r--r-- | man/en/sosreport.1 | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sos/plugins/__init__.py | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/en/sosreport.1 b/man/en/sosreport.1 index a885d563..75819b6e 100644 --- a/man/en/sosreport.1 +++ b/man/en/sosreport.1 @@ -158,8 +158,11 @@ and including logs in non-default locations. This option may significantly increase the size of reports. .TP .B \--since YYYYMMDD[HHMMSS] -Limits the collection to logs newer than this date. -This also affects \--all-logs. Will pad with 0s if HHMMSS isn't specified. +Limits the collection of log archives to those newer than this date. A log +archive is any file not found in /etc, that has either a numeric or a +compression-type file extension for example ".zip". ".1", ".gz" etc.). +This also affects \--all-logs. The date string will be padded with zeros +if HHMMSS is not specified. .TP .B \--allow-system-changes Run commands even if they can change the system (e.g. load kernel modules). diff --git a/sos/plugins/__init__.py b/sos/plugins/__init__.py index b7a47b6a..44ae413d 100644 --- a/sos/plugins/__init__.py +++ b/sos/plugins/__init__.py @@ -917,6 +917,7 @@ class Plugin(object): since = self.get_option('since') logarchive_pattern = re.compile(r'.*((\.(zip|gz|bz2|xz))|[-.][\d]+)$') + configfile_pattern = re.compile(r"^%s/*" % self.join_sysroot("etc")) if not self.test_predicate(pred=pred): self._log_info("skipped copy spec '%s' due to predicate (%s)" % @@ -962,7 +963,9 @@ class Plugin(object): """ When --since is passed, or maxage is coming from the plugin, we need to filter out older files """ - if logarchive_pattern.search(path) is None: + # skip config files or not-logarchive files from the filter + if ((logarchive_pattern.search(path) is None) or + (configfile_pattern.search(path) is not None)): return True filetime = datetime.fromtimestamp(getmtime(path)) if ((since and filetime < since) or |