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logrotate

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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
  • 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

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Setting up logrotate for additional Nginx logs, with postrotate script (assuming this role is located in roles/logrotate).

- role: logrotate
  logrotate_scripts:
    - name: nginx
      path: /var/log/nginx/*.log
      options:
        - weekly
        - size 25M
        - rotate 7
        - missingok
        - compress
        - delaycompress
        - copytruncate
      scripts:
        postrotate: "[ -s /run/nginx.pid ] && kill -USR1 `cat /run/nginx.pid`"

License

BSD

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