An ansible role to install and configure Logrotate in a Ubuntu machine
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name: The name of the logrotate config file
paths: A list of log paths that will be managed by the logrotate config
paths:
- "/foo/bar/test.log"
- "/foo/bar/dev.log"
frequency: The frequency the log will be rotated. Possible values: daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.
minsize: Log files are rotated when they grow bigger than size bytes, but not before the additionally specified time interval (daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly)
minsize: 100M
maxsize: Log files are rotated when they grow bigger than size bytes even before the additionally specified time interval (daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly)
maxsize: 1G
rotate: Log files are rotated count times before being removed or mailed
rotate: 7
extra_scripts: Extra scripts or config that are not included in the default options of this role
extra_scripts: |
create 644 user group
postrotate
<some scripts here>
endscript
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- name: Example logrotate
hosts: all
roles:
- role: jobscore.logrotate
vars:
logrotate_config:
- name: Rails logrotate
paths:
- "/var/log/rails.log"
frequency: daily
minsize: 100M
rotate: 7
extra_scripts: |
create 644 app app
sharedscripts
postrotate
echo "Hello"
endscript
GPLv3