Ansible Role: logrotate

Description

Installs and configures logrotate

Installation

  ansible-galaxy install arillso.logrotate

Requirements

None

Role Variables

Variable	Default	Comments (type)
logrotate_options	[ 'weekly', 'su root syslog', 'rotate 4', 'create' ]	List of default options
logrotate_wtmp	{ logs: ['/var/log/wtmp'], options: ['missingok', 'monthly', 'create 0664 root utmp', 'rotate 1'] }	Logrotate options for wtmp
logrotate_btmp	{ logs: ['/var/log/btmp'], options: ['missingok', 'monthly', 'create 0660 root utmp', 'rotate 1'] }	Logrotate options for btmp
logrotate_applications	[]	Logrotate options for other applications

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - arillso.logrotate

Example

logrotate_applications:
  - name: zabbix-agent
    definitions:
      - logs:
          - '/var/log/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.log'
        options:
          - weekly
          - rotate 13
          - compress
          - delaycompress
          - missingok
          - notifempty
          - create 0640 zabbix zabbix
  - name: nginx
    definitions:
      - logs:
          - '/var/log/nginx/nginx.log'
        options:
          - weekly
          - rotate 13
          - compress
          - delaycompress
          - missingok
          - notifempty
          - create 0640 www-data adm

Changelog

1.4.1

• add Red Hat Support

1.4

• update loop_vars
• add defaults vars

1.3

• new role tests

1.2

• rename role

1.1

• add become support

1.0

• inital role

Author

• Simon Bärlocher

License

This project is under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for the full license text.

Copyright

(c) 2019, Simon Bärlocher