Ansible Role: logrotate

Description

Installs and configures logrotate

Installation

  ansible-galaxy install arillso.logrotate

Requirements

None

Role Variables

imclude files

Path to the imclude files

logrotate_include_dir: /etc/logrotate.d

logrotate_use_hourly_rotation

Enable hourly rotation with cron

logrotate_use_hourly_rotation: false 

logrotate options

List of global options.

logrotate_options:
  - weekly
  - rotate 4
  - create
  - dateext
  - su root syslog

Package

package name to install logrotate.

logrotate_package: logrotate

default config

logroate for wtmp

logrotate_wtmp:
  logs:
    - /var/log/wtmp
  options:
    - missingok
    - monthly
    - create 0664 root utmp
    - rotate 1

logroate for btmp

logrotate_btmp:
  logs:
    - /var/log/btmp
  options:
    - missingok
    - monthly
    - create 0660 root utmp
    - rotate 1

applications config

More log files can be added that will logorate.

logrotate_applications: []

Example

The following options are available.

logrotate_applications
     definitions:
     - logs:
       - /var/log/apt/term.log
       - /var/log/apt/history.log
       options:
         - rotate 12
         - monthly
         - missingok
         - notifempty

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - arillso.logrotate

Author

• Simon Bärlocher

License

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

Copyright

(c) 2019, Arillso