Logadm Cookbook

Provides a logadm resource to create/delete cron jobs for log rotation
and management.

Requirements

Chef version 0.10.10+.

Platform

• SmartOS (presumably other SunOS)

Resources/Providers

logadm

Manage logadm.

Actions

• :create: create a named log entry
• :delete: delete a named log entry

Attribute Parameters

• :name: name attribute. Name of the log to set logadm rules to manage
• :manual_command: override all settings with one-liner command
• :path: path to log
• :count: number of
• :size: size is number followed by bytes...kilobytes...etc
• :period: time period to rotate logs
• :copy: copy and truncate
• :template: template for naming of logs
• :gzip: specify count of which log to start compressing ( default 1 )

Providers

• Chef::Provider::Logadm: shortcut resource logadm

Usage

Examples

# create a logadm entry
logadm "chef-client" do
  path "/var/log/chef/client.log"
  copy true
  size "1b"
  period "7d"
  action :create  
end

# nginx -C 5 -c -s 100m '/var/log/nginx/{access,error}.log'
logadm "nginx" do
  path "/var/log/nginx/{localhost.access,error}.log"
  copy true
  size "100m"
  count 5
  gzip 1
  action :create    
end