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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)

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.

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

Author Information

Find Nick Hammond on Twitter.

README.md