inputs.conf wildcards don't work

[tony_luu]

=== Splunk 5.0.2 ===

I'd like to monitor these files, where "manydirs" is a wildcard:

/my/path/manydirs/error/*.log

so, my monitor stanza looks like this:

[monitor:///my/path/*/error/]
disabled = false
index = myindex
sourcetype = myerrors
recursive = false

also tried this:

[monitor:///my/path/*/error/*.txt]

splunk list monitor shows the correct path.
and no TailingProcessor errors
Yet nothing got indexed.
The doc sounds pretty straight forward but didn't work.
Very frustrated. Please help.

Thanks, Tony.

[tony_luu]

Gotta clarify my problem.
I don't want recursive, but rather many different directories at the same level where '' is,

i.e

/my/path/core/error/.log

/my/path/supp/error/.log

/my/path/misc/error/.log

...

I guess i could use the recursive '...' route, but even that didn't work for me.

[landen99]

why did you make it your accepted answer then?

[okrabbe_splunk · Accepted solution]

You need to use ... to recurse multiple levels of directories.

[monitor:///my/path/.../error/*.log]
disabled = false
index = myindex
sourcetype = myerrors