Logrotate

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Configures logrotate scripts for log files. Comes with some builtin configs and allows for custom configs.

Installation and Dependencies

To install this role run ansible-galaxy install sansible.logrotate or add this to your roles.yml.

- src: sansible.logrotate
  version: v4.1.0-latest

and run ansible-galaxy install -p ./roles -r roles.yml

Tags

This role uses two tags: build and configure

• build - Installs Logrotate server.
• configure - Configures and ensures that the service is running.

Settings

Variable	Default	Description
sansible_logrotate_application_logs_delay_compress	yes	Whether to delay compression of rotated application logs [1]
sansible_logrotate_application_logs_delete_rotated_logs	no	Whether to delete rotated application logs via postrotate [2]
sansible_logrotate_application_logs_paths	[]	Out of the box config for generic application logs
sansible_logrotate_application_logs_rotate_days	7	Number of days to retain application logs
sansible_logrotate_application_logs_rotate_size	~	Size constraint for rotating application logs
sansible_logrotate_custom_configs	[]	Specify a path and a list of options to go into the config file
sansible_logrotate_version	~	Version number Logrotate package

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate [2] Forcible deletes log files as rotate 0 seems to leave a single rotated log behind

Examples

Note You can force logrotate to run like so:

# Dry run
logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf
# Actual run
logrotate -d -f /etc/logrotate.conf

Install with builtin application log config and custom config:

- name: Install Logrotate
  hosts: sandbox

  roles:
    role: logrotate
    sansible_logrotate_application_logs_delay_compress: yes
    sansible_logrotate_application_logs_paths:
      - /application/logs/*.log
      - /another_application/logs/*.log
    sansible_logrotate_custom_configs:
      - name: custom_log
        path: "/var/log/cutom/*.log"
        options:
          - weekly
          - size 25M
          - missingok
          - compress
          - delaycompress
          - copytruncate
        scripts:
          postrotate: "service rsyslog restart"