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.

• https://launchpad.net/~a.bono/+archive/rsyslog

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

Cookbooks

• cron (http://cookbooks.opscode.com/cookbooks/cron)

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"

OS X Console.app Setup

To use rsyslog within vagrant to forward messages to your OS X syslog (viewable in Console.app), do the following:

1. Change the rsyslog[:protocol] attribute to UDP
2. Set the rsyslog[:server_host] to "10.0.2.2"
3. Run the following on the OS X host to allow it to run as a syslog server

sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "add :Sockets:NetworkListener dict" /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "add :Sockets:NetworkListener:SockServiceName string syslog" /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "add :Sockets:NetworkListener:SockType string dgram" /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist

Messages will now be viewable in Console.app.

From Console.app you can add a new System Log Query to display messages from the Vagrant server by following these steps:

1. Hit ⌘⌥N or File -> New System Log Query
2. Name your query, under Search Name: (e.g. From Vagrant)
3. For the condition change the first dropdown to host and in the input box enter the hostname of the Vagrant machine. So for a hostname of "vagrant" it would become "Host is equal to vagrant".
4. Hit OK and now you'll see the new query under System Log Queries in the Log List. That query will update automatically when new messages come in.

LICENSE AND AUTHOR

Author:: Joshua Timberman ([email protected])

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

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