Introduce logrotate_create (global) variable. Fixes #26.

Author: robertdebock

README.md

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ This example is taken from [`molecule/default/converge.yml`](https://github.com/
     logrotate_frequency: daily
     logrotate_keep: 7
     logrotate_compress: true
+    logrotate_create: false
     logrotate_entries:
       - name: example
         path: "/var/log/example/*.log"
@@ -180,6 +181,9 @@ logrotate_compress: true
 # Use date extension on log file names
 logrotate_dateext: false
 
+# Enable the global `create` directive in /etc/logrotate.conf.
+logrotate_create: true
+
 # User/Group for rotated log files (Loaded by OS-Specific vars if found, or and can be set manually)
 logrotate_user: "{{ _logrotate_user[ansible_distribution] | default(_logrotate_user['default']) }}"
 logrotate_group: "{{ _logrotate_group[ansible_distribution] | default(_logrotate_group['default']) }}"

defaults/main.yml

@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ logrotate_compress: true
 # Use date extension on log file names
 logrotate_dateext: false
 
+# Enable the global `create` directive in /etc/logrotate.conf.
+logrotate_create: true
+
 # User/Group for rotated log files (Loaded by OS-Specific vars if found, or and can be set manually)
 logrotate_user: "{{ _logrotate_user[ansible_distribution] | default(_logrotate_user['default']) }}"
 logrotate_group: "{{ _logrotate_group[ansible_distribution] | default(_logrotate_group['default']) }}"

meta/argument_specs.yml

@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ argument_specs:
         type: bool
         description: "Use date extension on log file names"
         default: false
+      logrotate_create:
+        type: bool
+        description: "Enable the global `create` directive in /etc/logrotate.conf."
+        default: true
       logrotate_user:
         type: str
         description: "User for rotated log files. Automatically determined, but overridable."

molecule/default/converge.yml

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
     logrotate_frequency: daily
     logrotate_keep: 7
     logrotate_compress: true
+    logrotate_create: false
     logrotate_entries:
       - name: example
         path: "/var/log/example/*.log"

tasks/assert.yml

@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@
       - logrotate_dateext is boolean
     quiet: true
 
+- name: assert | Test logrotate_create
+  ansible.builtin.assert:
+    that:
+      - logrotate_create is defined
+      - logrotate_create is boolean
+    quiet: true
+
 - name: assert | Test logrotate_user
   ansible.builtin.assert:
     that:

templates/logrotate.conf.j2

@@ -12,16 +12,18 @@ su {{ logrotate_user }} {{ logrotate_group }}
 rotate {{ logrotate_keep }}
 
 # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
+{% if logrotate_create %}
 create
+{% else %}
+#create
+{% endif %}
 
-# add dateext
 {% if logrotate_dateext %}
 dateext
 {% else %}
 #dateext
 {% endif %}
 
-# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
 {% if logrotate_compress %}
 compress
 {% else %}