From 2d34c72c583ca584dfcbec7cb00c27d470164b0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 20:53:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Override the default syslog logrotate on notifs-backend01 as
 its messaages log grows very very large over time. Rotate it daily, compress
 with xz and only keep 7 days. Can adjust from there.

---
 roles/notifs/backend/files/syslog-logrotate | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 roles/notifs/backend/tasks/main.yml         |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 roles/notifs/backend/files/syslog-logrotate

diff --git a/roles/notifs/backend/files/syslog-logrotate b/roles/notifs/backend/files/syslog-logrotate
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7028290a18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/notifs/backend/files/syslog-logrotate
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/var/log/cron
+/var/log/maillog
+/var/log/messages
+/var/log/secure
+/var/log/spooler
+{
+    sharedscripts
+    postrotate
+	/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
+    endscript
+    daily
+    rotate 7
+    missingok
+    ifempty
+    compress
+    compresscmd /usr/bin/xz
+    uncompresscmd /usr/bin/xz
+    compressext .xz
+    dateext
+}
diff --git a/roles/notifs/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/notifs/backend/tasks/main.yml
index d74f18eb7c..5781d5e087 100644
--- a/roles/notifs/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/notifs/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -40,3 +40,9 @@
   tags:
   - notifs
   - notifs/backend
+
+- name: override the default syslog logrotate file
+  copy: src=syslog-logrotate dest=/etc/logrotate.d/syslog
+  tags:
+  - notifs
+  - notifs/backend