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Chef: Handling older Amazon AMI instances running sysklogd instead of rsyslog
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# In the rsyslog/recipe/default.rb, wrap the "package: command: | |
# We have to hack around yum dependency resolution since Amazon's Linux AMI is already using sysklogd | |
# and yum doesn't handle the swap out well enough | |
if platform?("amazon") && node['platform_version'] == "2010.11.2" # <== This is the version we are running. | |
# This was changed in version 2011.02, so any instances launched after that should be fine. | |
# No idea about other version numbers | |
cookbook_file "/tmp/yum-shell-rsyslog.yum" do | |
source "yum-shell-rsyslog.yum" | |
owner "root" | |
group "root" | |
mode 0644 | |
not_if { Chef::Provider::Package::Yum::YumCache.instance.installed_version("rsyslog") } | |
end | |
execute "yum shell - replace sysklogd with rsyslog" do | |
command "yum -y shell /tmp/yum-shell-rsyslog.yum" | |
action :run | |
not_if { Chef::Provider::Package::Yum::YumCache.instance.installed_version("rsyslog") } | |
end | |
# Clean up after yourself, like your mother taught you to | |
file "/tmp/yum-shell-rsyslog.yum" do | |
action :delete | |
end | |
else | |
# All other systems should be unaffected | |
package "rsyslog" do | |
action :install | |
end | |
end |
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# Thanks to http://www.thatsgeeky.com/2011/02/upgrading-sysklog-to-rsyslog/ | |
install rsyslog | |
remove sysklogd | |
run |
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