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DESCRIPTION

Installs rsyslog to replace sysklogd for client and/or server use. By default, server will be set up to log to files.

REQUIREMENTS

Platform

Tested on Ubuntu 8.04, 9.10, 10.04.

For Ubuntu 8.04, the rsyslog package will be installed from a PPA via the default.rb recipe in order to get 4.2.0 backported from 10.04.

Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 are no longer supported releases and have not been tested with this cookbook.

Cookbooks

ATTRIBUTES

  • rsyslog[:log_dir] - specify the directory to store logs (applicable to server only), default /srv/rsyslog
  • rsyslog[:server] - specify the remote rsyslog server. default false (no remote server)
  • rsyslog[:protocol] - specify whether to use udp or tcp for remote log transmission. tcp is default.

USAGE

To replace the sysklogd syslog service with rsyslog:

include_recipe "rsyslog"

To set up a client with a remote [r]syslog server:

include_recipe "rsyslog::client"

By default, this cookbook will use TCP so the server should be configured for TCP. This can be done easily with the server recipe:

include_recipe "rsyslog::server"

To switch to UDP, change the rsyslog[:protocol] attribute. Note this needs to be done on each client as well.

Also, the server configuration will set up log_dir for each client, by date. Structure:

<%= @log_dir %>/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/HOSTNAME/"logfile"

LICENSE AND AUTHOR

Author:: Joshua Timberman (joshua@opscode.com)

Copyright:: 2009-2011, Opscode, Inc

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.