logrotate

Ansible Role: `logrotate`

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

Further development of this Ansible role has been moved to Collection bodsch.core. This repository will therefore no longer be actively maintained.

Requirements & Dependencies

Ansible Collections

bodsch.core

ansible-galaxy collection install bodsch.core

ansible-galaxy collection install --requirements-file collections.yml

Operating systems

Tested on

ArchLinux
Debian based
- Debian 10 / 11 / 12
- Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04

RedHat-based systems are no longer officially supported! May work, but does not have to.

usage

logrotate_global:
  rotate_log: weekly
  rotate_size: ''
  su_user: ''
  su_group: ''
  rotate: 2
  create: true
  dateext: true
  compress: true
  tabooext: []
  archive_directory: ''

logrotate_conf_dir: "/etc/logrotate.d"

logrotate_scripts: {}

logroate_disable_systemd: true

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

state - create (present) or remove (absent) configuration. default: present
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:
  audit:
    path: /var/log/audit/audit.log
    description: |
      rotate all audit logs
    options:
      - weekly
      - rotate 4
      - missingok
      - notifempty
      - delaycompress
    scripts:
      prerotate: systemctl stop auditd.service > /dev/null
      postrotate: systemctl start auditd.service > /dev/null
      foo: failed

logrotate_scripts:
  nginx:
    paths:
      - /var/log/nginx/*/*.log
      - /var/log/nginx/*.log
    options:
      - weekly
      - rotate 2
      - missingok
      - notifempty
      - compress
      - sharedscripts
      - create 0644 http log
      - su root http
    scripts:
      postrotate: test ! -r /run/nginx.pid || kill -USR1 $(cat /run/nginx.pid)