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Bug 2039106

Summary:	Logging role "logging_purge_confs" option not properly working
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Noriko Hosoi <nhosoi>
Component:	rhel-system-roles	Assignee:	Rich Megginson <rmeggins>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jakub Haruda <jharuda>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:	Gabi Fialová <gfialova>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	9.0	CC:	djez, gfialova, jafiala, jharuda, nhosoi, rmeggins, spetrosi
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	9.0	Flags:	gfialova: needinfo- pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:	role:logging
Fixed In Version:	rhel-system-roles-1.12.0-1.el9	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	.The `logging_purge_confs` option correctly deletes unnecessary configuration files With the `logging_purge_confs` option set to `true`, it should delete unnecessary logging configuration files. Previously, however, unnecessary configuration files were not deleted from the configuration directory even if `logging_purge_confs` was set to `true`. This issue is now fixed and the option has been redefined as follows: if `logging_purge_confs` is set to `true`, Rsyslog removes files from the `rsyslog.d` directory which do not belong to any rpm packages. This includes configuration files generated by previous runs of the Logging role. The default value of `logging_purge_confs` is `false`.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Clones:	2039107 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2022-05-17 13:03:10 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	1990985, 2039107

Description Noriko Hosoi 2022-01-11 01:09:26 UTC

Description of problem:
When "logging_purge_confs: true" is set in the playbook as [0], if the cleanup task is executed as in [1], all the config files in /etc/rsyslog.d are wiped out.

Then the cleanup task tries to restart rsyslogd to fail with the broken configuration. 

[0]- https://github.com/linux-system-roles/logging/blob/master/tests/tests_basics_files.yml#L286
[1] - https://github.com/linux-system-roles/logging/blob/master/tests/tests_basics_files.yml#L387

To avoid the broken configuration problem, the logging role generates a backup file of /etc/rsyslog.conf and files in /etc/rsyslog.d prior to running the logging role and store it in /var/lib/rsyslog.

Then, if logging_restore_confs is set to true, the configuration files in the backup file are restored in /etc.

This is useful to reset the rsyslog configration as in [1].


To verify, run TEST CASE 3 in tests_basics_files.yml.
https://github.com/linux-system-roles/logging/blob/master/tests/tests_basics_files.yml#L282

Comment 1 Noriko Hosoi 2022-01-18 20:51:41 UTC

Note: this bz is a rhel-9 counterpart of Bug 2040812.

Comment 2 Noriko Hosoi 2022-01-18 21:32:55 UTC

*** Bug 1990971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-17 13:03:10 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (new packages: rhel-system-roles), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:2443