Not able to receive logs with multiple wildcards

[kago-dk]

Component(s)

receiver/filelog

What happened?

Description

In OpenTelemetry Collector V0.86.0 (Windows 2022 Server), does a filelog receiver with the following configuration produce an error.

The same configuration worked fine in OpenTelemetry Collector V0.85.0.

Configuration
- "C://Users//*//AppData//Local//Application//Logs//App*.log"

Error
2023-09-26T15:46:26.015-0700 warn fileconsumer/file.go:61 finding files: find files with 'C://Users//*//AppData//Local//Application//Logs//App*.log' pattern: open Default User: Access is denied.

Steps to Reproduce

Use the "OpenTelemetry Collector configuration" included and check the OtelCol log file.

Expected Result

The configuration that worked in V0.85.0 would still work in V0.86.0

Collector version

v0.86.0

Environment information

Environment

Windows 2022 Server

OpenTelemetry Collector configuration

receivers:
  filelog:
    - "C://Users//user1//AppData//Local//Application//Logs//App*.log"
    - "C://Users//*//AppData//Local//Application//Logs//App*.log"  

The first line works, while the second line does not work anymore.

Log output

2023-09-26T15:46:26.015-0700 warn fileconsumer/file.go:61 finding files: find files with 'C://Users//*//AppData//Local//Application//Logs//App*.log' pattern: open Default User: Access is denied.

Additional context

No response

[github-actions]

Pinging code owners:

• receiver/filelog: @djaglowski

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[djaglowski]

@kago-dk, we recently made a change so that errors encountered when trying to find files are logged. See #23768.

It's possible that what you are seeing is an error that was previously occurring but was not being logged.

[kago-dk]

Updated the configuration to exclude "Default User"
- "C://Users//[!Default User]//AppData//Local//Application//Logs//App.log"