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

Dependencies