From 9df5ad5f7b4aaaa2348969d3b5afd827807f36c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Schonecker <bschonec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 07:27:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Allow overriding of the Include directive in the
 /etc/rsyslog.conf file to support older versions of rsyslogd.

---
 manifests/base.pp | 2 +-
 manifests/init.pp | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/manifests/base.pp b/manifests/base.pp
index 217fb26f..d95f9254 100644
--- a/manifests/base.pp
+++ b/manifests/base.pp
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 
     file { $rsyslog::config_file:
       ensure  => file,
-      content => "${message}\ninclude(file=\"${rsyslog::confdir}/*.conf\" mode=\"optional\")\n",
+      content => "${message}\n${rsyslog::config_file_include}\n",
       mode    => $rsyslog::global_conf_perms,
     }
 
diff --git a/manifests/init.pp b/manifests/init.pp
index cef1ccc4..867a4974 100644
--- a/manifests/init.pp
+++ b/manifests/init.pp
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@
 #   Set the file mode for the rsyslog.d configuration directory.
 # @param global_conf_perms
 #   Set the file mode for the /etc/rsyslog.conf
+# @param config_file_include 
+#   Override the include directive in the /etc/rsyslog.conf file.
 #
 class rsyslog (
   String            $confdir,
@@ -118,6 +120,7 @@
   Stdlib::Filemode  $conf_permissions = '0644',
   Stdlib::Filemode  $confdir_permissions = '0755',
   Stdlib::Filemode  $global_conf_perms = $conf_permissions,
+  String            $config_file_include = "include(file=\"${rsyslog::confdir}/*.conf\" mode=\"optional\")",
 ) {
   if $manage_service == true and $external_service == true {
     fail('manage_service and external_service cannot be set at the same time!')