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Ansible role logwatch

Install and configure logwatch on your system.

GitHub	GitLab	Downloads	Version

Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/default/converge.yml and is tested on each push, pull request and release.

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: true

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.logwatch

The machine needs to be prepared. In CI this is done using molecule/default/prepare.yml:

---
- name: Prepare
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: false

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.bootstrap
    - role: robertdebock.core_dependencies
    - role: robertdebock.postfix
      postfix_relayhost: "[relay.example.com]"
      postfix_myhostname: "smtp.example.com"
      postfix_mydomain: "example.com"
      postfix_myorigin: "example.com"
      postfix_aliases:
        - name: root
          destination: [email protected]

Also see a full explanation and example on how to use these roles.

Role Variables

The default values for the variables are set in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for logwatch

logwatch_mailto: root
logwatch_mailfrom: Logwatch

# The time range for the report, either "all", "today" or "yesterday".
logwatch_range: yesterday

# The detail level for the report, either "Low", "Med" or "High" or a number
# ranging from 0 to 10.
logwatch_detail: Low

# A name of a defined service in "/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/" or
# "All".
logwatch_service: All

Requirements

pip packages listed in requirements.txt.

State of used roles

The following roles are used to prepare a system. You can prepare your system in another way.

Requirement	GitHub	GitLab
robertdebock.bootstrap
robertdebock.core_dependencies
robertdebock.postfix

Context

This role is a part of many compatible roles. Have a look at the documentation of these roles for further information.

Here is an overview of related roles:

Compatibility

This role has been tested on these container images:

container	tags
EL	8, 9
Debian	all
Fedora	all
opensuse	all
Ubuntu	all

The minimum version of Ansible required is 2.12, tests have been done to:

The previous version.
The current version.
The development version.

If you find issues, please register them in GitHub.

Author Information

robertdebock

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Debian Bookworm Defaults Break role

Describe the bug

Debian Bookworm defaults for Logwatch do not log auditd, sshd, postfix

I am still investigating

https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.bugs.dist/c/ARdMZj7bCNg

Preserve stock configuration file, add full option coverage

I believe that the stock configuration file at /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf should be preserved in it's original as-packaged format, and that /etc/logwatch/logwatch.conf should instead be created and managed by the role.

Additionally, there is not a lot of configurability to LogWatch, but there are a few settings which don't have coverage within this role. I believe that if we are going to template a configuration file wholesale, we need to provide full configuration coverage within the template.

Both of these changes should be fairly simple and I've added submitting a PR to my backlog, but such a PR would probably be at least a month off - so this issue is mostly to achieve 2 things:

Provide a note to self that I need to provide this PR
Give enough advance notice of this proposal for any objections to be raised prior to my spending time on this PR

Thanks!

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