Ansible Role logrotate

This role ensures that logrotate is installed and configured for main classic system log files like /var/log/cron, /var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages.

Additionally, this role allows you to deploy custom logrotate configs which are placed under {{ inventory_dir }}/host_files/{{ inventory_hostname }}/etc/logrotate.d on the Ansible control node. Keep in mind that later config files may override the options given in earlier files, so the order in which the logrotate config files are listed is important.

Tags

Tag	What it does
logrotate	Set platform/version specific variables Install logrotate Copy logrotate.conf template to /etc Copy system logrotate templates to /etc/logrotate.d Check if custom logrotate configs for {{ inventory_hostname }} exist Copy the custom logrotate configs to /etc/logrotate.d

Optional Role Variables

Variable	Description	Default Value
logrotate__rotate	Number. Log files are rotated count days before being removed or mailed to the address specified in a logrotate mail directive. If count is 0, old versions are removed rather than rotated. If count is -1, old logs are not removed at all (use with caution, may waste performance and disk space).	14

Example:

# optional
logrotate__rotate: 7

License

The Unlicense

Author Information

Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich