fix: actually bound the Zomboid log archive, which logrotate could not

The logrotate config added with the Sophie overhaul claimed to bound PZ's own
logs. It did not. data/Logs had reached 18 GB across 112 entries and 146k
files, and rotation had never once fired there.

Two reasons, both wrong assumptions on my part. PZ rolls its logs into dated
directories -- logs_2025-12-14/ through logs_2026-08-26/, up to 279 MB each --
so the Logs/*.txt glob only ever matched a handful of loose files at the top.
And it rotates by size: not one file in that tree exceeds 100M, because the
growth is in the number of files, not the size of any of them.

Age-based pruning is the right tool, so this adds a daily zomboid-log-prune
timer keeping 14 days and deleting the emptied directories behind it. It runs
under podman unshare, since the files belong to the container's UID.

logrotate keeps server-console.txt, which is a single ever-growing file and
genuinely is what it is good at. Narrowed its scope to say so rather than
implying coverage it never had.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Bastian de Byl
2026-08-26 02:34:30 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent a0421226a2
commit 91d9f6b419
7 changed files with 88 additions and 4 deletions
@@ -174,6 +174,38 @@
notify: restorecon podman
tags: zomboid-conf
- name: deploy zomboid log prune script
become: true
ansible.builtin.template:
src: zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.sh.j2
dest: "{{ podman_home }}/bin/zomboid-log-prune.sh"
owner: "{{ podman_user }}"
group: "{{ podman_user }}"
mode: '0755'
- name: deploy zomboid log prune units
become: true
ansible.builtin.template:
src: "zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.{{ item }}.j2"
dest: "{{ podman_home }}/.config/systemd/user/zomboid-log-prune.{{ item }}"
owner: "{{ podman_user }}"
group: "{{ podman_user }}"
mode: '0644'
loop:
- service
- timer
notify: reload zomboid systemd
- name: enable zomboid log prune timer
become: true
become_user: "{{ podman_user }}"
ansible.builtin.systemd:
name: zomboid-log-prune.timer
scope: user
enabled: true
state: started
daemon_reload: true
# The server's own logs, not the container's. PZ holds these fds open for the
# life of the process, so copytruncate is mandatory -- a rename would leave it
# writing into an unlinked inode and the file would appear to stop growing.
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@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
- import_tasks: containers/home/gregtime.yml
vars:
image: localhost/greg-time-bot:3.14.1
image: localhost/greg-time-bot:3.15.0
tags: gregtime
# Gated on zomboid_enabled (roles/podman/defaults/main.yml) so it can be taken