Cloud init rsyslog module will not start on FreeBSD

[Carlo Maiorano]

Cloud Provider: Openstack
Cloud init configuration is embedded in the attached archive
Cloud init platform: FreeBSD
FreeBSD image built using CLOUDWARE.

Cloud init port (net/cloud-init) on FreeBSD will not load rsyslog module because is not in configuration file.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

@Carlo,
Can you verify that the module works on FreeBSD ?

If so we can quite easily add it to the stock upstream config file generated for FreeBSD.

[Carlo Maiorano (charliemaiors)]

@Scott,
I've tried to test the single module but it didn't run because there are no rsyslog in configuration (The configuration is in the archive for the previous submission). I've also attached the dump from cloud-init analyze command.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

I kind of suspect it will work, but before enablilng it by default in
freebsd i'd like to know that it does.

Can you do:
a.) install rsyslog package
b.) add config to /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/rsyslog.cfg with something like:

rsyslog:
   configs:
        - content: "*.* @@192.0.2.1:10514"
          filename: 01-example.conf

c.) run cloud-init single --name=rsyslog --frequency=always

then verify if you have the expected content in
/etc/rsyslog.d/01-example.conf and that rsyslog was restarted.

if it gets restarted and reads those configs, then i'm really happy to
enable it.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:21 AM Carlo Maiorano <email address hidden> wrote:
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> @Scott,
> I've tried to test the single module but it didn't run because there are no rsyslog in configuration (The configuration is in the archive for the previous submission). I've also attached the dump from cloud-init analyze command.
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1798055/+attachment/5202190/+files/dumps.tar.gz
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[Carlo Maiorano (charliemaiors)]

Yes it works !!!
Rsyslogd was already installed when I made the FreeBSD Openstack image.

[Mina Galić (minagalic)]

if we adapt the configuration location for rsyslog on BSD to /usr/local/etc instead of /etc, we can enable it by default.

From what i gather, the module will only run when a configuration is supplied, right?

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3250