Ansible syslogs to user.notice on the managed machine - can I change this?

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I have a task logging to user.notice, and I can’t change it.

Ansible also logs to user.notice, and I’m wondering if I can change where it does that on a global basis. One of the locals would be nice.

Any way to do this?

Ed Greenberg

2

You can turn it off with no_target_syslog config entry, but there is
no current way of changing the logging target.

3

This is how I solved the problem in rsyslog.conf:

`
if $pri-text == ‘user.notice’ and $msg contains ‘ansible’ then {
/var/log/ansible.log
stop
}

`

I put this pretty close to the top of the rsyslog.conf, above GLOBAL DIRECTIVES.