Ansible Role: logrotate

Description

Installs and configures logrotate.

Installation

  ansible-galaxy install arillso.logrotate

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

include files

Path to the include files.

logrotate_include_dir: /etc/logrotate.d

logrotate_global_config

Enable/disable global configuration of /etc/logrotate.conf.

logrotate_global_config: true

logrotate_use_hourly_rotation

Enable/disable hourly rotation with cron.

logrotate_use_hourly_rotation: false

Enable houry rotation with systemd for Ubuntu >= focal logrotate_use_hourly_rotation must be true

logrotate_timer:
  options:
    - OnCalendar=hourly
    - Persistent=true

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

Logrotate for wtmp:

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

Logrotate for btmp:

logrotate_btmp_enable: true
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:
          - su user group
          - rotate 12
          - monthly
          - missingok
          - notifempty
        postrotate:
          - /path/to/some/script

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