logrotate-config

Generates conf files for logrotate.

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import logrotateConfig from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/logrotate-config';
</script>

README

logrotate-config

Generates a .conf file for logrotate.

Install

npm install logrotate-config

Example usage:


var logconf = require('logrotate-config');

var data = {
    global: {
        //global directives go in here
        missingok: true,
        daily: true,
        rotate: 5,
        compress: true,
        create: true
    },
    logfiles: [{
        //directives specific to each log file, overrides global config
        path: "/usr/local/etc/somefile.log", //required
        weekly: true,
        postrotate: "echo "rotating $1" >> /usr/local/etc/msg.txt"
    }]
}

logconf(data);

// missingok
// rotate 5
// daily
// compress
// create
// 
// /usr/local/etc/somefile.log {
//     weekly
//     postrotate
//         echo "rotating $1" >> /usr/local/etc/msg.txt
//     endscript
// }

Test

Run test/test.js to generate an example .conf file.