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Installs and configures rsyslog

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rsyslog Cookbook

Installs and configures rsyslog to replace syslogd for client and/or server use. By default, the service will be configured to log to files on local disk. See the Recipes and Examples sections for other uses.

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Requirements

Platforms

CentOS 8+ (incl. Rocky & Alma)
Debian 11+
Fedora
OpenSUSE Leap
SmartOS / OmniOS
Ubuntu 20.04+

Chef

Chef 15.3+

Other

To use the recipe[rsyslog::client] recipe, you'll need to set up the rsyslog.server_search or rsyslog.server_ip attributes. See the Recipes and Examples sections below.

Attributes

See attributes/default.rb for default values.

node['rsyslog']['log_dir'] - If the node is an rsyslog server, this specifies the directory where the logs should be stored.
node['rsyslog']['working_dir'] - The temporary working directory where messages are buffered
node['rsyslog']['working_dir_mode'] - The temporary working directory access mode
node['rsyslog']['server'] - Determined automatically and set to true on the server.
node['rsyslog']['server_ip'] - If not defined then search will be used to determine rsyslog server. Default is nil. This can be a string or an array.
node['rsyslog']['server_search'] - Specify the criteria for the server search operation. Default is role:loghost.
node['rsyslog']['protocol'] - Specify whether to use udp or tcp for remote loghost. Default is tcp. To use both specify both in a string e.g. 'udptcp'.
node['rsyslog']['bind'] - Specify the address to which the server should be listening; only use with node['rsyslog']['protocol'] = 'udp' because the feature does not work with the tcp protocol (more info).
node['rsyslog']['port'] - Specify the port which rsyslog should connect to a remote loghost.
node['rsyslog']['remote_logs'] - Specify whether to send all logs to a remote server (client option). Default is true.
node['rsyslog']['per_host_dir'] - "PerHost" directories for template statements in 35-server-per-host.conf. Default value is the previous cookbook version's value, to preserve compatibility. See server recipe below.
node['rsyslog']['priv_seperation'] - Whether to use privilege separation or not.
node['rsyslog']['priv_user'] - User to run as when using privilege separation. Defult is node['rsyslog']['user']
node['rsyslog']['priv_group'] - Group to run as when using privilege separation. Defult is node['rsyslog']['group']
node['rsyslog']['max_message_size'] - Specify the maximum allowed message size. Default is 2k. Specifying 'nil' or 'false' will not generate the associated directive in the configuration at all.
node['rsyslog']['user'] - Who should own the configuration files and directories
node['rsyslog']['group'] - Who should group-own the configuration files and directories
node['rsyslog']['dir_owner'] - Who should own the log directories
node['rsyslog']['dir_group'] - Who should group-own the log directories
node['rsyslog']['config_dir']['mode'] - Mode that should be set when creating the configuration directory
node['rsyslog']['file_create_mode'] - Mode that should be set when creating log files
node['rsyslog']['dir_create_mode'] - Mode that should be set when creating log directories
node['rsyslog']['umask'] - Specify the processes umask
node['rsyslog']['defaults_file'] - The full path to the defaults/sysconfig file for the service.
node['rsyslog']['package_name'] - Specify rsyslog package name
node['rsyslog']['service_name'] - The platform-specific name of the service
node['rsyslog']['preserve_fqdn'] - Value of the $PreserveFQDN configuration directive in /etc/rsyslog.conf. Default is 'off' for compatibility purposes.
node['rsyslog']['high_precision_timestamps'] - Enable high precision timestamps, instead of the "old style" format. Default is 'false'.
node['rsyslog']['repeated_msg_reduction'] - Value of $RepeatedMsgReduction configuration directive in /etc/rsyslog.conf. Default is 'on'
node['rsyslog']['logs_to_forward'] - Specifies what logs should be sent to the remote rsyslog server. Default is all ( . ).
node['rsyslog']['default_log_dir'] - log directory used in 50-default.conf template, defaults to /var/log
node['rsyslog']['default_facility_logs'] - Hash containing log facilities and destinations used in 50-default.conf template.
node['rsyslog']['default_file_template'] - The name of a pre-defined log format template (ie - RSYSLOG_FileFormat), used for local log files.
node['rsyslog']['default_remote_template'] - The name of a pre-defined log format template (ie - RSYSLOG_FileFormat), used for sending to remote servers.
node['rsyslog']['templates'] - Allows a user to specify a dynamic filename and the format of the logs
node['rsyslog']['rate_limit_interval'] - Value of the $SystemLogRateLimitInterval configuration directive in /etc/rsyslog.conf. Default is nil, leaving it to the platform default.
node['rsyslog']['rate_limit_burst'] - Value of the $SystemLogRateLimitBurst configuration directive in /etc/rsyslog.conf. Default is nil, leaving it to the platform default.
node['rsyslog']['action_queue_max_disk_space'] - Max amount of disk space the disk-assisted queue is allowed to use (more info).
node['rsyslog']['tcp_max_sessions'] - Maximum number of TCP sessions (ie. clients) this rsyslog server will handle. Default is 200.
node['rsyslog']['enable_tls'] - Whether or not to enable TLS encryption. When enabled, forces protocol to tcp. Default is false.
node['rsyslog']['tls_driver'] - Defaults to ossl.
node['rsyslog']['tls_ca_file'] - Path to TLS CA file. Required for both server and clients.
node['rsyslog']['tls_certificate_file'] - Path to TLS certificate file. Required for server, optional for clients.
node['rsyslog']['tls_key_file'] - Path to TLS key file. Required for server, optional for clients.
node['rsyslog']['tls_auth_mode'] - Value for $InputTCPServerStreamDriverAuthMode/$ActionSendStreamDriverAuthMode, determines whether client certs are validated. Defaults to anon (no validation).
node['rsyslog']['tls_permitted_peer'] - Value for ActionSendStreamDriverPermittedPeer, it narrows the list of the allowed hosts. Works with TLS only. Defaults to nil.
node['rsyslog']['use_local_ipv4'] - Whether or not to make use the remote local IPv4 address on cloud systems when searching for servers (where available). Default is 'false'.
node['rsyslog']['allow_non_local'] - Whether or not to allow non-local messages. If 'false', incoming messages are only allowed from 127.0.0.1. Default is 'false'.
node['rsyslog']['custom_remote'] - Array of hashes for configuring custom remote server targets
node['rsyslog']['additional_directives'] - Hash of additional directives and their values to place in the main rsyslog config file
node['rsyslog']['local_host_name'] - permits to overwrite the system hostname with the one specified in the directive
node['rsyslog']['default_conf_file'] - If false it skips the creation of default configuration file 50-default.conf
node['rsyslog']['server_per_host_template'] - Template to use in the rsyslog::server recipe when creating the 35-server-per-host.conf file
node['rsyslog']['server_per_host_cookbook'] - Cookbook name to get the node['rsyslog']['server_per_host_template'] template from
node['rsyslog']['imfile']['KEY'] - Set imfile module parameters of label KEY to value. e.g. PollingInterval. Consult rsyslog documentation for valid entries.
node['rsyslog']['modules'] - Array of modules to load in the main rsyslog config filex
node['rsyslog']['<module>_directives'] - Hash of module directives and their values that apply to each node['rsyslog']['modules'] when the module is loaded

Recipes

default

Installs the rsyslog package, manages the rsyslog service and sets up basic configuration for a standalone machine.

client

Includes recipe[rsyslog].

Uses node['rsyslog']['server_ip'] or Chef search (in that precedence order) to determine the remote syslog server's IP address. If search is used, the search query will look for the first ipaddress returned from the criteria specified in node['rsyslog']['server_search'].

You can use node['rsyslog']['custom_config'] to define custom entries for sending logs to remote servers. Available attributes:

    'server': Ip/hostname of remote syslog server (Required)
    'port': Port to send logs to
    'logs': Syslog log facilities to send (auth, authpriv, daemon, etc)
    'protocol': Can be tcp or udp
    'remote_template': Rsyslog template used for the messages

Example:

node['rsyslog']['custom_remote'] = [
  { 'server' => '10.10.4.4', 'port' => '567', 'logs' => 'auth.*,mail.*', 'protocol' => 'udp', 'remote_template' => 'RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format'},
  { 'server' => '10.0.0.3', 'port' => '555', 'logs' => 'authpriv,daemon.*' }
]

The server key is required; if other keys are left out, the default global values will be used (eg node['rsyslog']['port'] will be used if 'port' is omitted)

If the node itself is a rsyslog server ie it has rsyslog.server set to true then the configuration is skipped.

If the node had an /etc/rsyslog.d/35-server-per-host.conf file previously configured, this file gets removed to prevent duplicate logging.

Any previous logs are not cleaned up from the log_dir.

server

Configures the node to be a rsyslog server. The chosen rsyslog server node should be defined in the server_ip attribute or resolvable by the specified search criteria specified in node['rsyslog']['server_search] (so that nodes making use of the client recipe can find the server to log to).

The server recipe will create the logs in attribute node['rsyslog']['log_dir'], and the configuration in /etc/rsyslog.d/server.conf. This recipe also removes any previous configuration to a remote server by removing the file /etc/rsyslog.d/49-remote.conf.

The cron job used in the previous version of this cookbook is removed, but it does not remove any existing cron job from your system (so it doesn't break anything unexpectedly). We recommend setting up logrotate for the logfiles instead.

The log_dir will be concatenated with per_host_dir to store the logs for each client. Modify the attribute to have a value that is allowed by rsyslogs template matching values, see the rsyslog documentation for this.

Directory structure:

<%= @log_dir %>/<%= @per_host_dir %>/"logfile"

For example for the system with hostname www:

/srv/rsyslog/2011/11/19/www/messages

For example, to change this to just the hostname, set the attribute node['rsyslog']['per_host_dir'] via a role:

"rsyslog" => { "per_host_dir" => "%HOSTNAME%" }

At this time, the server can only listen on UDP or TCP.

Resources

file_input

Configures a text file input monitor to push a log file into rsyslog. Rsyslog must be installed to use this custom resource either using your own wrapper cookbook or the rsyslog::default recipe.

Properties:

name: name of the resource, also used for the syslog tag. Required.
file: file path for input file to monitor. Required.
priority: config order priority. Defaults to 99.
severity: syslog severity. Must be one of emergency, alert, critical, error, warning, notice, info or debug. If undefined, rsyslog interprets this as notice.
facility: syslog facility. Must be one of auth, authpriv, daemon, cron, ftp, lpr, kern, mail, news, syslog, user, uucp, local0, ... , local7. If undefined, rsyslog interprets this as local0.
cookbook_source: cookbook containing the template. Defaults to rsyslog.
template_source: template file source. Defaults to file-input.conf.erb

Usage

Use recipe[rsyslog] to install and start rsyslog as a basic configured service for standalone systems.

Use recipe[rsyslog::client] to have nodes log to a remote server (which is found via the server_ip attribute or by the recipe's search call -- see client)

Use recipe[rsyslog::server] to set up a rsyslog server. It will listen on node['rsyslog']['port'] protocol node['rsyslog']['protocol'].

If you set up a different kind of centralized loghost (syslog-ng, graylog2, logstash, etc), you can still send log messages to it as long as the port and protocol match up with the server software. See Examples

Use rsyslog_file_input within your recipes to forward log files to your remote syslog server.

Examples

A base role (e.g., roles/base.rb), applied to all nodes so they are syslog clients:

name "base"
description "Base role applied to all nodes"
run_list("recipe[rsyslog::client]")

Then, a role for the loghost (should only be one):

name "loghost"
description "Central syslog server"
run_list("recipe[rsyslog::server]")

By default this will set up the clients search for a node with the loghost role to talk to the server on TCP port 514. Change the protocol and port rsyslog attributes to modify this.

If you want to specify another syslog compatible server with a role other than loghost, simply fill free to use the server_ip attribute or the server_search attribute.

Example role that sets the per host directory:

name "loghost"
description "Central syslog server"
run_list("recipe[rsyslog::server]")
default_attributes(
  "rsyslog" => { "per_host_dir" => "%HOSTNAME%" }
)

Default rsyslog options are rendered for RHEL family platforms, in /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf with other platforms using a configuration like Debian family defaults. You can override these log facilities and destinations using the rsyslog['default_facility_logs'] hash.

name "facility_log_example"
run_list("recipe[rsyslog::default]")
default_attributes(
  "rsyslog" => {
    "default_facility_logs" => {
      '*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none' => "/var/log/messages",
      'authpriv' => '/var/log/secure',
      'mail.*' => '-/var/log/maillog',
      '*.emerg' => '*'
    }
  }
)

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

Backers

Thank you to all our backers!

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rsyslog Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the rsyslog cookbook.

11.0.0 - 2024-12-18

Allow module parameters to be configurable by attributes
e.g.node['rsyslog']['imuxsock_directives']

10.0.0 - 2024-12-12

Update rsyslog.conf template to support newer platforms
Update platforms tested in CI

9.2.25 - 2024-12-04

9.2.24 - 2024-11-18

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.2.23 - 2024-07-15

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.2.22 - 2024-05-22

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.2.21 - 2024-05-02

9.2.20 - 2024-05-02

9.2.19 - 2024-02-02

9.2.18 - 2024-02-02

Make $InputTCPMaxSessions configurable via
node['rsyslog']['tcp_max_sessions'] attribute.

9.2.17 - 2023-12-21

9.2.16 - 2023-09-28

9.2.15 - 2023-09-04

9.2.14 - 2023-09-04

9.2.13 - 2023-05-17

9.2.12 - 2023-04-17

9.2.11 - 2023-04-07

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.2.10 - 2023-04-01

9.2.9 - 2023-04-01

9.2.8 - 2023-04-01

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.2.7 - 2023-03-20

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.2.6 - 2023-03-15

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.2.5 - 2023-02-23

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.2.4 - 2023-02-16

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.2.3 - 2023-02-15

9.2.2 - 2023-02-14

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.2.1 - 2022-12-15

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.2.0 - 2022-09-27

Allow omitting $MaxMessageSize from config

9.1.0 - 2022-02-26

Use gnutls for TLS support on CentOS 7
Update tested platforms
Switch to reusable CI workflow

9.0.3 - 2022-02-10

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.0.2 - 2022-02-08

Remove delivery folder

9.0.1 - 2021-08-30

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

9.0.0 - 2021-06-18

Chef 17 updates: enable unified_mode on all resources
Bump required Chef Infra Client to >= 15.3
Remove support and testing for RHEL 6 and Ubuntu 16.04

8.0.3 - 2021-06-01

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

8.0.2 - 2021-04-14

Add check for FreeBSD to prevent trying to install a RELP package

8.0.1 - 2021-01-04

Cookstyle Bot Auto Corrections with Cookstyle 7.5.3

8.0.0 - 2020-12-03

Cookstyle fix
Two final references to use_imfile removed.
Automatically include imfile module with rsyslog_file_input
rspec test fix: SmartOS is version 5.11
Removed $ModLod from rsyslog_file_input resource
Move labeled_template helper method to helpers.rb file

7.6.0 - 2020-12-03

Bring default configuration for SmartOS inline with current distribution from pkgsrc and note SmartOS as a supported package.

7.5.0 - 2020-12-01

Fix log directory ownership

7.4.0 - 2020-11-25

Add facility to choose TLS driver

7.3.0 - 2020-11-23

Enabled custom templates for rsyslog 35-server-per-host.conf file.

7.2.1 - 2020-11-23

Fixed a bug during the release of 7.2.0
- Add an attribute for setting the mode on the configuration directory

7.2.0 - 2020-11-23

Add an attribute for setting the mode on the configuration directory

7.1.0 (2020-10-26)

Changed

Sous Chefs Adoption
Update Changelog to Sous Chefs
Update to use Sous Chefs GH workflow
Update README to sous-chefs
Update metadata.rb to Sous Chefs
Update test-kitchen to Sous Chefs
Migrate to InSpec for integration tests

Fixed

resolved cookstyle error: spec/default_spec.rb:236:7 warning: ChefDeprecations/DeprecatedChefSpecPlatform
resolved cookstyle error: recipes/client.rb:44:7 refactor: ChefCorrectness/ChefApplicationFatal
Cookstyle fixes
ChefSpec fixes
Yamllint fixes
Fix RELP on SuSE platforms

Added

Add mdlrc file
Add Ubuntu 20.04 testing
Add an attribute for setting the mode on the configuration directory

Removed

Remove Amazon Linux 1 testing
Remove EL 6 testing

7.0.1 (2019-12-23)

Fix the systemd detection logic - @tas50

7.0.0 (2019-12-23)

Update for Chef 15 license agreement and Chef Workstation - @tas50
Resolve Cookstyle 5.8 warnings - @tas50
Fixes spec tests locally and on travis-ci
Expand testing to the latest platformms - @tas50
Fix Amazon Linux 201X and 2.x support - @tas50
Fix opensuse failures - @tas50
Remove support for EOL RHEL 5
Require Chef Infra 13 or later

6.0.7 (2018-08-01)

Optional creation of default configuration file 50-default.conf

6.0.6 (2018-08-25)

Create working directory recursively

6.0.5 (2018-07-10)

Remove Chefspec matchers that are autogenerated now
Update specs to the latest platform versions
Make sure all config files use the owner/group/mode attributes

6.0.4 (2018-01-16)

Don't exclude any foodcritic rules
Remove the need for apt cookbook in testing
Remove omnios as a supported platform
Simplify platform support in the metadata
Update ignore files
Require Chef 12.7+

6.0.3 (2018-01-12)

Skip search if ['rsyslog']['server_search'] is empty
Fix FC108 error

6.0.2 (2017-07-04)

Updating README to reflect current Chef software version dependency and remove compat_resource cookbook dependency.
Update kitchen configs and use delivery local mode instead of Rake
Don’t fail parsing metadata.rb on older chef clients
Simplify Travis config and fix ChefDK 2.0 failures
Let permissions of template resources be configured through attributes
Fix CHEF-19 - Add prefix new_resource to several properties

6.0.1 (2017-02-28)

Fix Issue #126 multiple remote server configuration template which requires $ActionQueueFileName to be different for each remote server

6.0.0 (2017-02-23)

Require Chef 12.5+ and remove dependency on compat_resource

5.1.0 (2016-12-30)

Removed empty value from default custom_remote in attributes
don't break if custom_remote is not set
adding ability to override more options
adding ability to set multiple log templates

5.0.1 (2016-12-06)

Remove support for Ubuntu 10.04
Simplify logic in the attributes file around Fedora
Fix comment headers to be yard compatible

5.0.0 (2016-11-14)

Make rsyslog only restart once if you define multiple file_input resources.
Remove debugging log statement
Require chef 12.1
Require compat_resource 12.10+
Remove chef 11 compat
Remove support for arch
Depend on the recent compat_resource cookbook

v.4.0.1 (2016-07-20)

PR #76 Validate the config file using rsyslogd -N 1 via eherot
PR #105 Use correct file name for remote.conf via mfenner
PR #105 Add $LocalHostName directive via mfenner
PR #105 Change directive :fromhost-ip,!isequal,"127.0.0.1" from using ~ to stop via mfenner
PR #110 Add support for permitted peer via dastergon
Add SUSE support
Clean up travis configuration

v.4.0.0 (2015-12-09)

Removed support for Chef Solo. Since this cookbook now supports Chef 12+ only it makes far more sense to use Chef Zero (local mode) if a Chef server is not available.
Removed yum from the Berksfile as it wasn't being used
Fixed bad variables being passed in the file_input custom resource
Added Chefspec matchers

v.3.0.0 (2015-11-09)

Breaking change: The file_input LWRP has been updated to be a Chef 12.5 custom_resource, with backwards compatibility to all Chef 12.x released provided by compat_resource. Additionally the 'source' and 'cookbook' attributes in the file_input resource have been renamed to 'template_source' and 'cookbook_source' to prevent failures.
Helpers for determining the service provider on Ubuntu have been removed since Chef 12 does the right thing with Init, Upstart, and systemd.
rsyslog::client no longer fails if there are no servers to forward logs to. Instead forwarding isn't configuring and a warning is written to the chef client log
Fix broken templating of /etc/rsyslog.d/49-remote.conf when relp was enabled. Added testing to prevent future regressions here.
Test Kitchen integration tests are now run via Travis so all PRs will be fully tested

v.2.2.0 (2015-10-05)

Add why-run support to the file_input LWRP
Added support for rsyslog under systemd on Ubuntu 15.04+
Added new attribute node['rsyslog']['custom_remote']. See readme for additional information
Added source_url and issues_url metadata for Supermarket
Fixed 49-relp.conf to honor logs_to_forward so it didn't just forward everything
Updated contributing and testing docs
Set the minimum supported Chef release to 11.0
Added maintainers.toml and maintainers.md files
Added Amazon Linux, Oracle, and Scientific Linux to the metadata
Removed all pre-Ruby 1.9 hash rockets
Updated development dependencies in the
Fix a bad example attribute in the readme
Updated Travis CI config to test on all modern Ruby releases

v.2.1.0 (2015-07-22)

Fixed minor markdown errors in the readme
Allow the server to listen on both TCP and UDP. For both set node['rsyslog']['protocol'] to 'udptcp'
Move the include for /etc/rsyslog.d/ to the very end of the rsyslog.conf config
Added the ability to bind to a specific IP when running the server on UDP with node['rsyslog']['bind']
Sync the comments in the rsyslog.conf file with the latest upstream rsyslog release
Change emerg to log to :omusrmsg: vs. on modern rsyslog releases to avoid deprecation warnings

v.2.0.0 (2015-05-18)

Note: This version includes several breaking changes for Ubuntu users. Be sure to take care when deploying these changes to production systems.

49-relp.conf now properly uses the list of servers discovered in the client recipe
Fixed a typo that prevented file-input.conf from properly templating
Added allow_non_local attribute to allow non-local messages. This defaults to false, which preserves the previous functionality
The rsyslog directory permissions are now properly set using the user/group attributes instead of root/root
Properly drop permissions on Ubuntu systems to syslog/syslog. Introduces 2 new attributes to control the user/group: priv_user and priv_group
Remove logging to /dev/xconsole in 50-default.conf on Ubuntu systems. This is generally not something you'd want to do and produces error messages at startup.

v.1.15.0 (2015-02-23)

Change minimum supported Fedora release to 20 to align with the Fedora product lifecycle
Add supports CentOS to metadata
Update Rubocop and Test Kitchen dependencies to the latest versions
Update Chefspec to 4.0
Fix CentOS 5 support in the Kitchen config
Fix rsyslog service notification in the file_input LWRP

v.1.14.0 (2015-01-30)

Don't attempt to use journald on Amazon Linux since Amazon Linux doesn't use systemd
Fixed setting bad permissions on the working directory by using the rsyslog user/group variables.
Fixed bad variable in the 49-relp.conf template that prevented Chef converges from completing.
Removed the 'reload' action from the rsyslog service as newer rsyslog releases don't support reload.
Updated Chefspecs to remove deprecation warnings and added additional tests.
Removed node name from the comment block in the config files.
Added a new file_input LWRP for defining configs.
Added support for chef solo search cookbook.

v1.13.0 (2014-11-25)

Rsyslog's working directory is now an attribute and is set to the appropriate directory on RHEL based distros
The working directory is now 0700 vs 0755 for additional security
Add the ActionQueueMaxDiskSpace directive with a default of 1GB to prevent out of disk events during large buffering
Updated RHEL / Fedora facilities to match those shipped by the distros
Updated modules to match those used by journald (systemd) on Fedora 19+ and CentOS 7
Added an attribute additional_directives to pass a hash of configs. This is currently only being used to pass directives necessary for journald support on RHEL 7 / Fedora 19+
Added basic SUSE support
Fixed logic that prevented Ubuntu from properly dropping privileges in Ubuntu >= 11.04
Removed references to rsyslog v3 in the config template
Added a chefignore file
Updated Gemfile with newer releases of Test Kitchen, Rubocop, and Berkshelf
Added Fedora 20, Debian 6/7, CentOS 7, and Ubuntu 12.04/14.04 to the Test Kitchen config
Removed an attribute that was in the Readme twice
Updated Travis to Ruby 2.1.1 to better match Chef 12
Updated the Berksfile to point to Supermarket
Refactored the specs to be more dry

v1.12.2 (2014-02-28)

Fixing bug fix in rsyslog.conf

v1.12.0 (2014-02-27)

[COOK-4021] Allow specifying default templates for local and remote
[COOK-4126] rsyslog cookbook fails restarts due to not using upstart

v1.11.0 (2014-02-19)

Bug

[COOK-4256] - Fix syntax errors in default.conf on rhel

New Feature

[COOK-4022] - Add use_local_ipv4 option to allow selecting internal interface on cloud systems
[COOK-4018] - rsyslog TLS encryption support

v1.10.2

No change. Version bump for toolchain.

v1.10.0

New Feature

[COOK-4021] - Allow specifying default templates for local and remote

Improvement

[COOK-3876] - Cater for setting rate limits

v1.9.0

New Feature

[COOK-3736] - Support OmniOS

Improvement

[COOK-3609] - Add actionqueue to remote rsyslog configurations

Bug

[COOK-3608] - Add 50-default template knobs
[COOK-3600] - SmartOS support

v1.8.0

Improvement

[COOK-3573] - Add Test Kitchen, Specs, and Travis CI

New Feature

[COOK-3435] - Add support for relp

v1.7.0

Improvement

[COOK-3253] - Enable repeated message reduction
[COOK-3190] - Allow specifying which logs to send to remote server
[COOK-2355] - Support forwarding events to more than one server

v1.6.0

New Feature

[COOK-2831]: enable high precision timestamps

Bug

[COOK-2377]: calling node.save has adverse affects on nodes relying on a searched node's ohai attributes
[COOK-2521]: rsyslog cookbook incorrectly sets directory ownership to rsyslog user
[COOK-2540]: Syslogd needs to be disabled before starting rsyslogd on RHEL 5

Improvement

[COOK-2356]: rsyslog service supports status. Service should use it.
[COOK-2357]: rsyslog cookbook copies in wrong defaults file on Ubuntu !9.10/10.04

v1.5.0

[COOK-2141] - Add $PreserveFQDN configuration directive

v1.4.0

[COOK-1877] - RHEL 6 support and refactoring

v1.3.0

[COOK-1189] - template change does not restart rsyslog on Ubuntu

This actually went into 1.2.0 with action :reload, but that change has been reverted and the action is back to :restart.

v1.2.0

[COOK-1678] - syslog user does not exist on debian 6.0 and ubuntu versions lower than 11.04
[COOK-1650] - enable max message size configuration via attribute

v1.1.0

Changes from COOK-1167:

More versatile server discovery - use the IP as an attribute, or use search (see README)
Removed cron dependency.
Removed log archival; logrotate is recommended.
Add an attribute to select the per-host directory in the log dir
Works with Chef Solo now.
Set debian/ubuntu default user and group. Drop privileges to syslog.adm.

v1.0.0

[COOK-836] - use an attribute to specify the role to search for instead of relying on the rsyslog['server'] attribute.
Clean up attribute usage to use strings instead of symbols.
Update this README.
Better handling for chef-solo.

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