logrotate

Installs logrotate and provides an easy way to setup additional logrotate scripts by specifying a list of directives.

Requirements

None

Role Variables

logrotate_scripts: A list of logrotate scripts and the directives to use for the rotation.

• name - The name of the script that goes into /etc/logrotate.d/
• path - Path to point logrotate to for the log rotation
• paths - A list of paths to point logrotate to for the log rotation.
• options - List of directives for logrotate, view the logrotate man page for specifics
• scripts - Dict of scripts for logrotate (see Example below)

logrotate_scripts:
  - name: rails
    path: "/srv/current/log/*.log"
    options:
      - weekly
      - size 25M
      - missingok
      - compress
      - delaycompress
      - copytruncate

logrotate_scripts:
  - name: rails
    paths:
        - "/srv/current/scare.log"
        - "/srv/current/hide.log"
    options:
      - weekly
      - size 25M
      - missingok
      - compress
      - delaycompress
      - copytruncate

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Setting up logrotate for additional Nginx logs, with postrotate script.

- hosts: all
  vars:
    logrotate_scripts:
      - name: nginx-options
        path: /var/log/nginx/options.log
        options:
          - daily
          - weekly
          - size 25M
          - rotate 7
          - missingok
          - compress
          - delaycompress
          - copytruncate

      - name: nginx-scripts
        path: /var/log/nginx/scripts.log
        options:
          - daily
          - weekly
          - size 25M
        scripts:
          postrotate: "echo test"

  roles:
    - ansible-logrotate

Testing locally

This role is already configured to run on travis CI within a test playbook but it's useful to be able to run and debug a role locally which can be done via Vagrant and the ansible_local provisioner.

To run the test playbook locally within a Vagrant virtual machine:

cd tests
vagrant up --provision

License

BSD

Author Information

• nickhammond | www | twitter
• bigjust
• steenzout
• jeancornic
• duhast
• kagux