From 4836f747ae11b81896d80cbcd39bcb9ba0f9fe12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Respheal <madeleine.ethridge@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:54:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Older logging syntax for Debian 9/Ubuntu 16

---
 templates/monitrc | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/templates/monitrc b/templates/monitrc
index 9806968..6838056 100644
--- a/templates/monitrc
+++ b/templates/monitrc
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 set daemon  30              # check services at 30 seconds intervals
+
+{% if ansible_os_family == "Debian"
+  and (ansible_distribution_major_version == "9"
+  or ansible_distribution_major_version == "16.04") %}
+set logfile /var/log/monit.log
+{% else %}
 set log /var/log/monit.log
+{% endif %}
 set eventqueue
     basedir /var/monit      # set the base directory where events will be stored
     slots 100               # optionally limit the queue size