ansible logrotate issues with postrorate script

Vicky Ingle - Mint

2/6/24, 6:50 AM

Below is my ansible role > defaults/main.yaml

    $cat roles/logrotate/defaults/main.yml
    
      logrotate_conf_dir: "/etc/logrotate.d/"
      logrotate_scripts:
        - name: test
          log_dir: '/var/log/test'
          log_extension: 'log'
          options:
            - rotate 7
            - weekly
            - size 10M
            - missingok
            - compress
            - create 0644 test test
          scripts:
            postrotate: "echo test >> /var/log/test.log"

and my task/main.yaml has

    $ cat roles/logrotate/tasks/main.yaml
    # tasks file for nginx
    
    - name: Setup logrotate scripts
      template:
        src: logrotate.d.j2
        dest: "{{ logrotate_conf_dir }}{{ item.name }}"
      with_items: "{{ logrotate_scripts }}"
      when: logrotate_scripts is defined

Getting the below error while running this simple playbook:

TASK [logrotate : Setup logrotate scripts] ******************************************************************************************************* An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ansible.errors.AnsibleUndefinedVariable: 'dict object' has no attribute 'iteritems' failed: [10.20.5.72] (item={'name': 'test', 'log_dir': '/var/log/test', 'log_extension': 'log', 'options': ['rotate 7', 'weekly', 'size 10M', 'missingok', 'compress', 'create 0644 test test'], 'scripts': {'postrotate': 'echo test >> /var/log/test.log'}}) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": {"log_dir": "/var/log/test", "log_extension": "log", "name": "test", "options": ["rotate 7", "weekly", "size 10M", "missingok", "compress", "create 0644 test test"], "scripts": {"postrotate": "echo test >> /var/log/test.log"}}, "msg": "AnsibleUndefinedVariable: 'dict object' has no attribute 'iteritems'"}

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Vladimir Botka

2/6/24, 11:42 AM

Post the template `logrotate.d.j2`

Score:1

Server

Vladimir Botka

2/6/24, 12:07 PM

In the template, fix the iteration. For example,

{% for k,v in item.scripts.items() %}

^{Example of a complete playbook for testing
shell> cat pb.yml
- hosts: localhost

vars:

logrotate_conf_dir: "/etc/logrotate.d/"
logrotate_scripts:
- name: test
log_dir: '/var/log/test'
log_extension: 'log'
options:
- rotate 7
- weekly
- size 10M
- missingok
- compress
- create 0644 test test
scripts:
postrotate: "echo test >> /var/log/test.log"

tasks:

- name: Setup logrotate scripts
template:
src: logrotate.d.j2
dest: "{{ logrotate_conf_dir }}{{ item.name }}"
loop: "{{ logrotate_scripts|d([]) }}"

shell> cat logrotate.d.j2
{{ item.log_dir }}/{{ item.name }}.{{ item.log_extension }}
{
{% for option in item.options %}
{{ option }}
{% endfor %}
{% for k,v in item.scripts.items() %}
{{ k }}
{{ v }}
endscript
{% endfor %}
}

gives (--check --diff)
+/var/log/test/test.log
+{
+ rotate 7
+ weekly
+ size 10M
+ missingok
+ compress
+ create 0644 test test
+ postrotate
+ echo test >> /var/log/test.log
+ endscript
+}}

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Vicky Ingle - Mint

2/6/24, 10:47 PM

Thanks a lot, the solution worked for me!!!

Vladimir Botka

2/7/24, 12:07 AM

You're welcome. You should [edit] the question and post the template. It should be clear where does the error come from.

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