A more Puppety way of managing logrotate configs. Where possible, as many of the configuration options have remained the same with a couple of notable exceptions:
- Booleans are now used instead of the
<something>/no<something>pattern. e.g.copy==copy => true,nocopy==copy => false. createand its three optional arguments have been split into seperate parameters documented below.- Instead of 'daily', 'weekly', 'monthly' or 'yearly', there is a
rotate_everyparameter (see documentation below).
You may, optionally, define logrotate defaults using this defined type.
Parameters are the same as those for logrotate::rule.
Using this type will automatically include a private class that will install
and configure logrotate for you.
You must not also declare the logrotate class if using this defined type as you will encounter a Puppet error if you attempt to do so.
The only thing you'll need to deal with, this type configures a logrotate rule. Using this type will automatically include a private class that will install and configure logrotate for you.
namevar - The String name of the rule.
path - The path(s) to the log file(s) to be rotated. May be a
String or an Array of Strings.
ensure - The desired state of the logrotate rule as a String. Valid
values are 'absent' and 'present' (default: 'present').
compress - A Boolean value specifying whether the rotated logs should
be compressed (optional).
compresscmd - The command String that should be executed to compress the
rotated logs (optional).
compressext - The extention String to be appended to the rotated log files
after they have been compressed (optional).
compressoptions - A String of command line options to be passed to the
compression program specified in `compresscmd` (optional).
copy - A Boolean specifying whether logrotate should just take a
copy of the log file and not touch the original (optional).
copytruncate - A Boolean specifying whether logrotate should truncate the
original log file after taking a copy (optional).
create - A Boolean specifying whether logrotate should create a new
log file immediately after rotation (optional).
create_mode - An octal mode String logrotate should apply to the newly
created log file if create => true (optional).
create_owner - A username String that logrotate should set the owner of the
newly created log file to if create => true (optional).
create_group - A String group name that logrotate should apply to the newly
created log file if create => true (optional).
dateext - A Boolean specifying whether rotated log files should be
archived by adding a date extension rather just a number
(optional).
dateformat - The format String to be used for `dateext` (optional).
Valid specifiers are '%Y', '%m', '%d' and '%s'.
dateyesterday - A Boolean specifying whether to use yesterday's date instead
of today's date to create the `dateext` extension (optional).
delaycompress - A Boolean specifying whether compression of the rotated
log file should be delayed until the next logrotate run
(optional).
extension - Log files with this extension String are allowed to keep it
after rotation (optional).
ifempty - A Boolean specifying whether the log file should be rotated
even if it is empty (optional).
mail - The email address String that logs that are about to be
rotated out of existence are emailed to (optional).
mailfirst - A Boolean that when used with `mail` has logrotate email the
just rotated file rather than the about to expire file
(optional).
maillast - A Boolean that when used with `mail` has logrotate email the
about to expire file rather than the just rotated file
(optional).
maxage - The Integer maximum number of days that a rotated log file
can stay on the system (optional).
minsize - The String minimum size a log file must be to be rotated,
but not before the scheduled rotation time (optional).
The default units are bytes, append k, M or G for kilobytes,
megabytes and gigabytes respectively.
maxsize - The String maximum size a log file may be to be rotated;
When maxsize is used, both the size and timestamp of a log
file are considered for rotation.
The default units are bytes, append k, M or G for kilobytes,
megabytes and gigabytes respectively.
missingok - A Boolean specifying whether logrotate should ignore missing
log files or issue an error (optional).
olddir - A String path to a directory that rotated logs should be
moved to (optional).
postrotate - A command String that should be executed by /bin/sh after
the log file is rotated (optional).
prerotate - A command String that should be executed by /bin/sh before
the log file is rotated and only if it will be rotated
(optional).
firstaction - A command String that should be executed by /bin/sh once
before all log files that match the wildcard pattern are
rotated (optional).
lastaction - A command String that should be execute by /bin/sh once
after all the log files that match the wildcard pattern are
rotated (optional).
rotate - The Integer number of rotated log files to keep on disk
(optional).
rotate_every - How often the log files should be rotated as a String.
Valid values are 'hour', 'day', 'week', 'month' and 'year'
(optional). Please note, older versions of logrotate do not
support yearly log rotation.
size - The String size a log file has to reach before it will be
rotated (optional). The default units are bytes, append k,
M or G for kilobytes, megabytes or gigabytes respectively.
sharedscripts - A Boolean specifying whether logrotate should run the
postrotate and prerotate scripts for each matching file or
just once (optional).
shred - A Boolean specifying whether logs should be deleted with
shred instead of unlink (optional).
shredcycles - The Integer number of times shred should overwrite log files
before unlinking them (optional).
start - The Integer number to be used as the base for the extensions
appended to the rotated log files (optional).
su_user - A username String that logrotate should use to rotate a
log file set instead of using the default if
su => true (optional).
su_group - A String group name that logrotate should use to rotate a
log file set instead of using the default if
su => true (optional).
uncompresscmd - The String command to be used to uncompress log files
(optional).
Further details about these options can be found by reading man 8 logrotate.
You may, optionally, declare the main ::logrotate class to adjust some of the
defaults that are used when installing the logrotate package and creating the
main /etc/logrotate.conf configuration file.
This example will ensure that the logrotate package is latest and that the dateext and compress options are added to the defaults for a node.
class { 'logrotate':
ensure => 'latest',
config => {
dateext => true,
compress => true,
rotate => 10,
rotate_every => 'week',
ifempty => true,
}
}With parameter logrotate_args you can specify additional startup arguments for logrotate. Configuration file is always added as the last argument for logrotate.
This example tells logrotate to use an alternate state file and which command to use when mailing logs.
class { 'logrotate':
ensure => 'latest',
logrotate_args => ['-s /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status', '-m /usr/local/bin/mailer']
}By default, the cron output is discarded if there is no error output. To enable this output, when you (for example) enable the verbose startup argument, enable the cron_always_output boolean on the logrotate class:
class { 'logrotate':
ensure => 'latest',
cron_always_output => true,
config => {
...
}
}logrotate::conf { '/etc/logrotate.conf':
rotate => 10,
rotate_every => 'week',
ifempty => true,
dateext => true,
}
logrotate::rule { 'messages':
path => '/var/log/messages',
rotate => 5,
rotate_every => 'week',
postrotate => '/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd',
}
logrotate::rule { 'servicelogs':
path => ['/var/log/this-service.log', '/var/log/that-app.log'],
rotate => 5,
rotate_every => 'day',
postrotate => '/usr/bin/kill -HUP `cat /run/syslogd.pid`',
}
logrotate::rule { 'apache':
path => '/var/log/httpd/*.log',
rotate => 5,
mail => 'test@example.com',
size => '100k',
sharedscripts => true,
postrotate => '/etc/init.d/httpd restart',
}Puppet-logrotate has been maintained by VoxPupuli since version 2.0.0. It was migrated from https://forge.puppet.com/yo61/logrotate. yo61's version was a fork of https://github.com/rodjek/puppet-logrotate. It is licensed under the MIT license.
