How to configure logrotate to just prune a directory once a week?

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Published on 2010-05-10T09:58:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 10:04 UTC
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How to configure logrotate to just delete all files under selected directory once a week?

I'm testing the following:

/var/spool/mydir/* {

    daily
    rotate 0
    nocompress
    copytruncate }

But it doesn't seem to remove anything. Should I wait one day?

Thank you.

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