spinen-autolog-cookbook

This cookbook installs and configures the autolog utility.

The autolog utility is managed by the /etc/autolog.conf configuration file. Configuration options are documented here

Supported Platforms

Ubuntu 14.04

Attributes

This cookbook only includes 2 attributes:

node['autolog']['nolostkill'] is by default true. This atrribute writes the line nolostkill at the end of the configuration file. Setting this attribute to false will eliminate that line.

node['autolog']['protected_users'] is an array of users you wish to exempt from being logged out. By default this includes only root. The vagrant recipe adds the vagrant user for vagrant VMs and is a simple example of how to add users to this array.

Usage::Recipes

spinen-autolog::default

Include spinen-autolog in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[spinen-autolog::default]"
  ]
}

### spinen-autolog::vagrant

Include spinen-autolog::vagrant in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[spinen-autolog::vagrant]"
  ]
}

This recipe will add the vagrant user as a protected user that does not get logged off when idle.

Usage::the autolog_line resource

The autolog_line resource enables a user to write any configuration line to the /etc/autolog.conf file. Lines will appear in the configuration file in the order they appear in the recipe.

The autolog_line default and only action is :create

The autolog_line resource takes two hash attributes:

The switches attribute is a hash of the available switches it is possible to set as documented in the autolog manpage. By default none of these switches are set.

The boolean_attributes attribute hash is a set of true/false attributes available to write in a configuration line. The author has tried to set sane defaults for these.

Example, from the default recipe:

everyone_switches = { idle: '10', grace: '60' }

autolog_line 'everyone' do
  switches everyone_switches
  action :create
end

Results in this line in the autolog.conf configuration file:

idle=10 grace=60 nohard nomail clear warn log

License and Authors

Author:: SPINEN (luke.reimer@spinen.com)