# Possible for ansible.log to have a DATE or TIMESTAMP in the name of the log?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/possible-for-ansible-log-to-have-a-date-or-timestamp-in-the-name-of-the-log/22501>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 6, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/possible-for-ansible-log-to-have-a-date-or-timestamp-in-the-name-of-the-log/22501 "2016-09-06T20:52:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_Leo\_Huetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@John\_Leo\_Huetter](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_Leo_Huetter)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/possible-for-ansible-log-to-have-a-date-or-timestamp-in-the-name-of-the-log/22501/1 "2016-09-06T20:52:29Z")

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Hello, is it possible to add a date or date/time extension to ansible.log files created?

In ansible.cfg, I would like the log files to be created as ansible.log.20160906

I would think based on the other config options I see in ansible.cfg I could make use of the date/time variables, specify the file like so:

log\_path=/app/ansible/logs/ansible.log-%Y%m%d

However, the log gets created as ansible.log-%Y%m%d

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,  
John

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**Author:** ![Josh\_Smift1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Josh\_Smift1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Josh_Smift1)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/possible-for-ansible-log-to-have-a-date-or-timestamp-in-the-name-of-the-log/22501/2 "2016-09-07T13:22:01Z")

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You could write a wrapper script that sets $ANSIBLE\_LOG\_PATH, and then  
runs Ansible.

(I agree that this seems like a nice feature to have in general though.)

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