zapier/ansible-logrotate

Name: ansible-logrotate

Owner: Zapier

Description: Ansible Galaxy role to setup logrotate and additional rotation scripts

Created: 2015-11-14 11:26:24.0

Updated: 2015-11-12 20:04:50.0

Pushed: 2015-11-14 11:27:50.0

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README

Role Name

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)

otate_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.

otate_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

Author Information

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