Adding log purging job using Chef

Previous post talked about the linux command to purge old log files. Here is the way of doing the same thing, but with chef

cookbooks/housekeep/recipes/default.rb

# we need cron for scheduler
package cron do
  action :install
end

include_recipe "housekeep::clear_log"

cookbooks/housekeep/recipes/clear_log.rb

cron "housekeep application log files" do
  user "housekeeper"
  # mailto "your@example.com"
  
  # 00:01 every night
  hour "0"
  minute "1"

  # clean up logs older than 30 days
  command "/find ~/log/application-*.log.tar.gz -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;"
end

Snippet available in gist:https://gist.github.com/798157