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What's wrong with my config? I had to --force the logrotate a couple times to see changes, but the numbering is all wonky.

 ----@----------:/var/log/upstart# ls -Anh
 total 4.0G
 -rw-r----- 1 0 0 56K Aug 21 08:41 graylog-server.log
 -rw-r----- 1 0 0 1.1G Aug 21 08:36 graylog-server.log.1.1.gz
 -rw-r----- 1 0 0 727M Aug 21 08:35 graylog-server.log.1.gz.1.gz
 -rw-r----- 1 0 0 0 Aug 20 11:22 graylog-server.log.2.gz
 -rw-r----- 1 0 0 28K Aug 20 10:40 graylog-server.log.3.gz.1.gz
 -rw-r----- 1 0 0 1.2G Aug 20 10:29 graylog-server.log.4.gz.1
 -rw-r----- 1 0 0 861M Aug 21 08:40 graylog-server.log.4.gz.1.gz
 -rw-r----- 1 0 0 212M Aug 20 10:25 graylog-server.log.5.gz
 -rw-r----- 1 0 0 5.3M Aug 20 06:25 graylog-server.log.6.gz

Config:

----@----------:/var/log/upstart# vim /etc/logrotate.d/upstart

/var/log/upstart/*-server.log.* 
 size 3G
 missingok
 rotate 5
 compress
 notifempty
 nocreate

Using logrotate

--force /etc/logrotate.d/upstart

to rotate.

It seems that you are log-rotating already log-rotated logs.

In your config you use /var/log/upstart/*-server.log.* to select the files to rotate. This expression matches graylog-server.log.1 but no graylog-server.log. So you are rotating the old rotated log files but not the current log file.

Probably you want to use /var/log/upstart/*-server.log instead.