I've setup an rsyslog server which accepts log information from clients.

I can successfully receive syslog messages however I'm interested in logging a number of files too.

Here is what my client looks like:

$ModLoad imfile

$InputFileName /var/log/drew-error.log
$InputFileTag drew:
$InputFileStateFile stat-drew-error
$InputFileSeverity error
$InputRunFileMonitor

$InputFilePollInterval 1

I'm not sure exactly what to put in my server config. Ideally I'd like the server to output something like this:

/var/log/remote/$HOSTNAME/drew-error.log

Am I going about this the right way? Is this reasonable to try to achieve?

Best Case Scenario: I'd like to be able to update the files I'm watching on the client, without having to reconfigure the server. If that's not possible, or too hard, I can probably work around a hard-coded solution.

What I've tried

So far I've tried a few configurations for the server (though I feel they're not the right solution/approach):

$template syslog, "/var/log/remote/%hostname%/%programname%/%$year%%$month%%$day%/syslog"
*.*;auth,authpriv.none          ?syslog

and

$template DrewTemplate,"/var/log/remote-DREWAPP-%HOSTNAME%.log"
if $programname == 'drew:' then -?DrewTemplate
& ~

$template PerHostLog,"/var/log/remote-%HOSTNAME%.log"
if $fromhost-ip startswith '1.2.' then -?PerHostLog
& ~

Question: What type of updates do each ELB property support?

I'm reading through the ELB CF docs:

AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing::LoadBalancer http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-ec2-elb.html

On the page it states "This type supports updates".

The only property that goes into detail is this one:

SecurityGroups Required: No.

Type: A list of security groups assigned to your load balancer within your virtual private cloud (VPC).

Update requires: no interruption

No other properties mention what type of update they trigger.

Am I missing something in the documentation? Is there a default update action for the other properties?

IMPORTANT

I'm building the TemplateURL dynamically.

"TemplateURL" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", [  { "Ref" : "TemplateURL"}, "substack.template" ]] }

I'm running a CloudFormation template in the AWS Console.

Running Stack Directly

I started with a template that used IAM resources, and the console prompts me to acknowledge IAM capabilities when running the stack directly.

Running Stack as a child

I then tried to call the same stack from a parent stack and did not receive the same prompt.

The stack then failed with the message:

Requires capabilities : [CAPABILITY_IAM]

Research

The docs indicate that I can run CF scripts in a number of ways. There's plenty of docs around CLI/API and supplying the capability parameter, but there appears to be no information about how to make sure it's applied when running through the console.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-iam-template.html

IAM Resources in AWS CloudFormation Templates

• CF Console
• CLI
• API

What I've done / What I think

I've raised an issue via the forum for now, but no response (yet): https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=139160

I suspect this is a bug in the Console, as there doesn't appear to be any documentation of how to change the behaviour via the console and as far as I'm aware this should just work.

Anyone came across the same problem, or can report that it's working fine for them?

I'm trying to get php 5.4 running on AWS Opsworks.

When I add the "PHP App Server" layer I get the following description "The PHP Application Server layer is a blueprint for instances that function as PHP application servers. By default PHP 5.3 and Apache 2.2 are installed."

I've tried to use "PHP App Sever" with some modifications. I've tried Custom Chef Recipes (from git://github.com/evopix/opsworks-cookbooks.git): mod_php54_apache2" and "deploy::php54"

After investigating the logs and the code I noticed that it's still installing 5.3 and failing when trying to install 5.4.

Another option I am considering is, choosing "custom layer" and either creating my own recipes, finding someone else's, or modifying one that's close enough. I noticed the AWS Chef recipe seems to have lots of hardcoded dependancy on PHP 5.3 so I'm not sure how much effort it would take to modify their code.

Ideally, it would be nice if AWS was on the verge of releasing options such as PHP 5.3 or 5.4 and/or Apache or Nginx but I haven't been able to find any information about how soon they'll be updating their recipes.

TL/DR: How to install PHP 5.4 on AWS Opsworks. Does someone have a Chef recipe that I can use, or pointers for modifying a Chef recipe that already exists.