Have a look at the janitor cookbook. It aims to be fairly platform agnostic and may work in this scenario. (Disclaimer: I am the author, but I still do think it could be used and updated to support such a function)
On Dec 18, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Kirill Timofeev < "> > wrote:
> I cloned chef-client cookbook from https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-client. It looks like this cookbook doesn't setup logrotate for chef-client. May I ask you if this was done intentionally or this is a bug?
I don't work for Opscode, so I can't give you a definitive answer.
First off, keep in mind that the cookbooks provided via github are not the official sources of the cookbooks as far as community is concerned. That's where they do development of the cookbooks, but (unless specified otherwise) they only officially support the versions as uploaded to <http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks>.
Secondly, the cookbooks they provide are intended to be a starting point, to give you ideas of how things could be done. They are not generally intended to be all-encompassing.
Third, my view is that they try fairly hard to be OS-agnostic, and a cookbook like logrotate is going to necessarily have to be fairly OS-specific in the way it is implemented -- FreeBSD won't necessarily work anything like Ubuntu, Ubuntu won't necessarily work anything like Red Hat, none of them will work anything remotely like Windows or OS X, etc....
> If this was done intentionally should I just use logrotate cookbook (https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/logrotate) and add logrotate recipe to chef-client with following content?
It's been a while since I looked at that cookbook and how it did things, but what you suggest does seem plausible.
> From my point of view it is very reasonable to have logrotate enabled out of the box for chef-client.
There are a lot of platforms that Opscode tries to support, which means that there's a lot of stuff they don't try to provide out-of-the-box, if that might only be useful on a certain subset of the platforms. If you want to contribute code to implement certain features for certain platforms, I'm sure that they'd be happy to look at your pull request, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they would necessarily agree to accept it.
I believe it's also a good idea to generally make cookbooks fairly independent of each other, in particular when you're talking about foundational cookbooks on which everything else might be built.
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