evolinux-base: logs are rotated with dateext by default

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ The **patch** part changes is incremented if multiple releases happen the same m
 * evolinux-base: force Debian version to buster for Evolix repository (temporary)
 * evolinux-base: split dpkg logrotate configuration
 * evolinux-base: install freeipmi by default on dedicated hw
+* evolinux-base: logs are rotated with dateext by default
 * kibana: 7.x by default
 * listupgrade: upstream release 21.06.3
 * logstash: elastic_stack_version = 7.x

evolinux-base/defaults/main.yml

@@ -164,8 +164,10 @@ evolinux_logs_include: True
 
 evolinux_logs_logrotate_confs: True
 evolinux_logs_default_rotate: True
+evolinux_logs_default_dateext : True
 evolinux_logs_disable_logrotate_rsyslog: True
 evolinux_logs_rsyslog_conf: True
+evolinux_logrotate_dateformat: "-%Y%m%d%H"
 
 # default www
 

evolinux-base/files/logs/logrotate.disabled/procmail

@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 /var/log/procmail.log {
     daily
     rotate 365
-    dateext
-    dateyesterday
-    dateformat .%Y%m%d
     missingok
-    rotate 365
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 }
 

evolinux-base/tasks/logs.yml

@@ -30,11 +30,34 @@
     dest: /etc/logrotate.d/zsyslog
   when: evolinux_logs_logrotate_confs | bool
 
-- name: Configure logrotate.conf
+- name: Configure logrotate.conf default rotate value
   replace:
     dest: /etc/logrotate.conf
     regexp: "rotate [0-9]+"
     replace: "rotate 12"
   when: evolinux_logs_default_rotate | bool
 
+- name: Enable logrotate.conf dateext option
+  lineinfile:
+    dest: /etc/logrotate.conf
+    line: "dateext"
+    regexp: "^#?\\s*dateext"
+  when: evolinux_logs_default_dateext | bool
+
+- name: Enable logrotate.conf dateformat option
+  lineinfile:
+    dest: /etc/logrotate.conf
+    line: "dateformat {{ evolinux_logrotate_dateformat | mandatory }}"
+    regexp: "^#?\\s*dateformat.*"
+    insertafter: 'dateext'
+  when: evolinux_logs_default_dateext | bool
+
+- name: Disable logrotate.conf dateyesterday option
+  lineinfile:
+    dest: /etc/logrotate.conf
+    line: "# dateyesterday"
+    regexp: "^\\s*dateyesterday"
+    insertafter: 'dateext'
+  when: evolinux_logs_default_dateext | bool
+
 - meta: flush_handlers

evolinux-base/templates/logs/zsyslog.j2

@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 # Custom EvoLinux
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+{% if not evolinux_logs_default_dateext %}
+# BEGIN legacy setting
+# … when global dateext and dateformat are not enabled
 dateext
 dateyesterday
 dateformat .%Y%m%d
+# END legacy setting
+{% endif %}
 missingok
 notifempty
 delaycompress