logrotate entire directory containing log files

Question

Is there a way using logrotate I can rotate entire directory and compress it instead of just the files in a particular directory? I tried experimenting using the config below but that does not work. Give the error message below:

Config:

/path/to/folder/test {
daily
rotate 5
missingok
compress
delaycompress
}

Error:

$logrotate -vf test.conf
reading config file test.conf
reading config info for /path/to/folder/test

Handling 1 logs

rotating pattern: /path/to/folder/test  forced from command line (5 
rotations)
empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed
error: error creating unique temp file: Permission denied

Answer 1

Logrotate only operates upon individual files in directories, not the entire directory as a single entity. The most straight-forward solution would be a cronjob that calls something like gzip on that directory then moves/deletes files as you see fit.