Modify existing logrotate file using an ansible playbook

mondragonfx 0
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I'm looking to create an ansible playbook to rotate syslogs and daemon.logs in our environment. I'm not looking to use ansible-galaxy roles.

Ideally, i would need to just modify the existing rsyslog file in /etc/logrotate.d and add /var/log/daemon.log to the first curly block (see below).

I was referring to the following link, however im not able to fully grasp the concept as I am a new user of Ansible.

https://ansible-tips-and-tricks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modifying-files/modifying-files/

/var/log/syslog
{
        rotate 7
        daily
        missingok
        notifempty
        delaycompress
        compress
        postrotate
                /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate
        endscript
}

/var/log/mail.info
/var/log/mail.warn
/var/log/mail.err
/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/daemon.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/user.log
/var/log/lpr.log
/var/log/cron.log
/var/log/debug
/var/log/messages
{
        rotate 4
        weekly
        missingok
        notifempty
        compress
        delaycompress
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate
        endscript
}

      }

Desired:

/var/log/syslog
/var/log/daemon.log
{
        rotate 14
        daily
        missingok
        notifempty
        delaycompress
        compress
        postrotate
                /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate
        endscript
}
...
logrotate logging ansible
1 Answers

Using ansible replace module and lineinfile module you can complete this task. No need to look for ansible galaxy roles. You can write simple playbook for this automation.

Prasad Patil0
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