rsyslog Cookbook CHANGELOG ========================== This file is used to list changes made in each version of the rsyslog cookbook. v.2.2.0 (2015-10-05) ---------- - Add why-run support to the file_input LWRP - Added support for rsyslog under systemd on Ubuntu 15.04+ - Added new attribute node['rsyslog']['custom_remote']. See readme for additional information - Added source_url and issues_url metadata for Supermarket - Fixed 49-relp.conf to honor logs_to_forward so it didn't just forward everything - Updated contributing and testing docs - Set the minimum supported Chef release to 11.0 - Added maintainers.toml and maintainers.md files - Added Amazon Linux, Oracle, and Scientific Linux to the metadata - Removed all pre-Ruby 1.9 hash rockets - Updated development dependencies in the - Fix a bad example attribute in the readme - Updated Travis CI config to test on all modern Ruby releases v.2.1.0 (2015-07-22) ---------- - Fixed minor markdown errors in the readme - Allow the server to listen on both TCP and UDP. For both set node['rsyslog']['protocol'] to 'udptcp' - Move the include for /etc/rsyslog.d/ to the very end of the rsyslog.conf config - Added the ability to bind to a specific IP when running the server on UDP with node['rsyslog']['bind'] - Sync the comments in the rsyslog.conf file with the latest upstream rsyslog release - Change emerg to log to :omusrmsg:* vs. * on modern rsyslog releases to avoid deprecation warnings v.2.0.0 (2015-05-18) -------------------- Note: This version includes several breaking changes for Ubuntu users. Be sure to take care when deploying these changes to production systems. - 49-relp.conf now properly uses the list of servers discovered in the client recipe - Fixed a typo that prevented file-input.conf from properly templating - Added allow_non_local attribute to allow non-local messages. This defaults to false, which preserves the previous functionality - The rsyslog directory permissions are now properly set using the user/group attributes instead of root/root - Properly drop permissions on Ubuntu systems to syslog/syslog. Introduces 2 new attributes to control the user/group: priv_user and priv_group - Remove logging to /dev/xconsole in 50-default.conf on Ubuntu systems. This is generally not something you'd want to do and produces error messages at startup. v.1.15.0 (2015-02-23) --------------------- - Change minimum supported Fedora release to 20 to align with the Fedora product lifecycle - Add supports CentOS to metadata - Update Rubocop and Test Kitchen dependencies to the latest versions - Update Chefspec to 4.0 - Fix CentOS 5 support in the Kitchen config - Fix rsyslog service notification in the file_input LWRP v.1.14.0 (2015-01-30) --------------------- - Don't attempt to use journald on Amazon Linux since Amazon Linux doesn't use systemd - Fixed setting bad permissions on the working directory by using the rsyslog user/group variables. - Fixed bad variable in the 49-relp.conf template that prevented Chef converges from completing. - Removed the 'reload' action from the rsyslog service as newer rsyslog releases don't support reload. - Updated Chefspecs to remove deprecation warnings and added additional tests. - Removed node name from the comment block in the config files. - Added a new file_input LWRP for defining configs. - Added support for chef solo search cookbook. v1.13.0 (2014-11-25) -------------------- - Rsyslog's working directory is now an attribute and is set to the appropriate directory on RHEL based distros - The working directory is now 0700 vs 0755 for additional security - Add the ActionQueueMaxDiskSpace directive with a default of 1GB to prevent out of disk events during large buffering - Updated RHEL / Fedora facilities to match those shipped by the distros - Updated modules to match those used by journald (systemd) on Fedora 19+ and CentOS 7 - Added an attribute additional_directives to pass a hash of configs. This is currently only being used to pass directives necessary for journald support on RHEL 7 / Fedora 19+ - Added basic SUSE support - Fixed logic that prevented Ubuntu from properly dropping privileges in Ubuntu >= 11.04 - Removed references to rsyslog v3 in the config template - Added a chefignore file - Updated Gemfile with newer releases of Test Kitchen, Rubocop, and Berkshelf - Added Fedora 20, Debian 6/7, CentOS 7, and Ubuntu 12.04/14.04 to the Test Kitchen config - Removed an attribute that was in the Readme twice - Updated Travis to Ruby 2.1.1 to better match Chef 12 - Updated the Berksfile to point to Supermarket - Refactored the specs to be more dry v1.12.2 (2014-02-28) -------------------- Fixing bug fix in rsyslog.conf v1.12.0 (2014-02-27) -------------------- - [COOK-4021] Allow specifying default templates for local and remote - [COOK-4126] rsyslog cookbook fails restarts due to not using upstart v1.11.0 (2014-02-19) -------------------- ### Bug - **[COOK-4256](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-4256)** - Fix syntax errors in default.conf on rhel ### New Feature - **[COOK-4022](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-4022)** - Add use_local_ipv4 option to allow selecting internal interface on cloud systems - **[COOK-4018](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-4018)** - rsyslog TLS encryption support v1.10.2 ------- No change. Version bump for toolchain. v1.10.0 ------- ### New Feature - **[COOK-4021](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-4021)** - Allow specifying default templates for local and remote ### Improvement - **[COOK-3876](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-3876)** - Cater for setting rate limits v1.9.0 ------ ### New Feature - **[COOK-3736](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-3736)** - Support OmniOS ### Improvement - **[COOK-3609](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-3609)** - Add actionqueue to remote rsyslog configurations ### Bug - **[COOK-3608](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-3608)** - Add 50-default template knobs - **[COOK-3600](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-3600)** - SmartOS support v1.8.0 ------ ### Improvement - **[COOK-3573](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-3573)** - Add Test Kitchen, Specs, and Travis CI ### New Feature - **[COOK-3435](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-3435)** - Add support for relp v1.7.0 ------ ### Improvement - **[COOK-3253](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-3253)** - Enable repeated message reduction - **[COOK-3190](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-3190)** - Allow specifying which logs to send to remote server - **[COOK-2355](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-2355)** - Support forwarding events to more than one server v1.6.0 ------ ### New Feature - [COOK-2831]: enable high precision timestamps ### Bug - [COOK-2377]: calling node.save has adverse affects on nodes relying on a searched node's ohai attributes - [COOK-2521]: rsyslog cookbook incorrectly sets directory ownership to rsyslog user - [COOK-2540]: Syslogd needs to be disabled before starting rsyslogd on RHEL 5 ### Improvement - [COOK-2356]: rsyslog service supports status. Service should use it. - [COOK-2357]: rsyslog cookbook copies in wrong defaults file on Ubuntu !9.10/10.04 v1.5.0 ------ - [COOK-2141] - Add `$PreserveFQDN` configuration directive v1.4.0 ------ - [COOK-1877] - RHEL 6 support and refactoring v1.3.0 ------ - [COOK-1189] - template change does not restart rsyslog on Ubuntu This actually went into 1.2.0 with action `:reload`, but that change has been reverted and the action is back to `:restart`. v1.2.0 ------ - [COOK-1678] - syslog user does not exist on debian 6.0 and ubuntu versions lower than 11.04 - [COOK-1650] - enable max message size configuration via attribute v1.1.0 ------ Changes from COOK-1167: - More versatile server discovery - use the IP as an attribute, or use search (see README) - Removed cron dependency. - Removed log archival; logrotate is recommended. - Add an attribute to select the per-host directory in the log dir - Works with Chef Solo now. - Set debian/ubuntu default user and group. Drop privileges to `syslog.adm`. v1.0.0 ------ - [COOK-836] - use an attribute to specify the role to search for instead of relying on the rsyslog['server'] attribute. - Clean up attribute usage to use strings instead of symbols. - Update this README. - Better handling for chef-solo.