Add support to purge existing configuration snippets, by default don't purge anything.

README.md

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ and configuration can be overridden, for additional informations please have a l
 
 
 **rsyslog_default_config**: Setup a default basic configuration stanza (default: "True")
+**purge_config**: Purge existing config snippets (default: "False")
 
 
 Dependencies

defaults/main.yml

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ rsyslog_action_file_default_template: RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat
 #rsyslog_action_file_template: "%rawmsg%\n"
 #rsyslog_priv_drop_to_user: syslog
 #rsyslog_priv_drop_to_group: syslog
+purge_config: False
 items: []
 rsyslog_default_config: "True"
 rsyslog_os_supported: no

tasks/main.yml

@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@
     - restart rsyslog
   when: rsyslog_os_supported == True
 
+- name: remove existing (custom/additional) configurations
+  tags:
+    - rsyslog
+    - files
+  file:
+    state: absent
+    path: "{{ rsyslog_include_path }}/"
+  when: purge_config == True
+
 - name: create additional configuration directory
   tags:
     - rsyslog

test.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+---
+- name: Test playbook
+  remote_user: root
+  hosts: all
+  vars:
+
+  handlers:
+
+  roles: 
+    - role: ../../xdrum.rsyslog
+      rsyslog_default_config: True
+      purge_config: True
+      items:
+      - name: "20-iptables"
+        lines: 
+          - ':msg, contains, "iptables" /var/log/iptables.log'
+          - '& ~'
+      - name: "30-dovecot"
+        lines: 
+          - 'if $programname == "dovecot" and $syslogseverity <= "6" then ~'
+          - '& ~'