Merge pull request #133 from jfwm2/50-default-optional

Optional creation of default configuration file 50-default.conf

README.md

@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ See `attributes/default.rb` for default values.
 - `node['rsyslog']['custom_remote']` - Array of hashes for configuring custom remote server targets
 - `node['rsyslog']['additional_directives']` - Hash of additional directives and their values to place in the main rsyslog config file
 - `node['rsyslog']['local_host_name']` - permits to overwrite the system hostname with the one specified in the directive
+- `node['rsyslog']['default_conf_file']` - If false it skips the creation of default configuration file 50-default.conf
 
 ## Recipes
 

attributes/default.rb

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ default['rsyslog']['allow_non_local']           = false
 default['rsyslog']['custom_remote']             = []
 default['rsyslog']['additional_directives']     = {}
 default['rsyslog']['templates']                 = %w()
+default['rsyslog']['default_conf_file']         = true
 
 # The most likely platform-specific attributes
 default['rsyslog']['package_name']              = 'rsyslog'

recipes/default.rb

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ template "#{node['rsyslog']['config_prefix']}/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf" do
   mode    node['rsyslog']['config_files']['mode']
   notifies :run, 'execute[validate_config]'
   notifies :restart, "service[#{node['rsyslog']['service_name']}]"
-end
+end unless node['rsyslog']['default_conf_file'] == false
 
 # syslog needs to be stopped before rsyslog can be started on RHEL versions before 6.0
 if platform_family?('rhel') && node['platform_version'].to_i < 6