On 3/5/20 6:31 PM, John wrote:
> I have a task that searches logs for specific errors in various logs (up to 7 
> days worth of logs).  When searching
> through just one log I never had an issue, but when searching through the 7 
> logs (used a wildcard to accomplish this),
> sometimes Ansible goes to lunch and doesn't recover.  It just sits there like 
> it is still executing.  We have let it run
> for many hours in that state just to make sure.  I think it has a lot to do 
> with timing and/or the size of the files
> (and the number of errors found int he files).  Wondering if there is a more 
> robust way to address this so that it will
> either not hang, continue on after a certain point (maybe a 5 minute timeout) 
> or be more efficient (such as searching
> logs and writing to a file with an ansible module I don't know of)?  
> 
> |
> - name: Gather error reports
>   shell: |
>           while read line; do
>             grep -i "$line" "{{ log_source }}"* | uniq  > "{{ dest_dir }}/{{ 
> ansible_hostname }}-$line.txt"
>           done < "{{ error_log }}"
>   failed_when: false
>   args:
>     executable: /bin/bash
> |
> 

I would recommend to use a dedicated tool such as logwatch.

Regards
         Racke


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