diff --git a/roles/logging/README.md b/roles/logging/README.md
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+openwrt-logging
+==============
+
+configure logging aspects of your openwrt system.
+compare: [http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/system]
+
+
+Role Variables
+--------------
+
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+[lefant.openwrt-uci]
+
+Example Playbook
+----------------
+
+[https://github.com/lefant/ansible-openwrt/blob/master/openwrt.yml]
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+must be kept minimal as this is supposed to run on openwrt embedded
+systems. in particular we try get by with plain POSIX shell, using
+neither python nor bash in any way. lua could be an option as that
+seems to be the openwrt scripting language of choice.
+
+License
+-------
+
+BSD
+
+Author Information
+------------------
+
+Jan Wagner, [http://blog.waja.info/]
+
+
+
+[http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/system]: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/system
+[lefant.openwrt-uci]: https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles/1645
+[https://github.com/lefant/ansible-openwrt/blob/master/openwrt.yml]: https://github.com/lefant/ansible-openwrt/blob/master/openwrt.yml
+[http://e.lefant.net/]: http://e.lefant.net/
diff --git a/roles/logging/defaults/main.yml b/roles/logging/defaults/main.yml
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+---
+# defaults file for openwrt-logging
+system:
+  log_ip: []
+  conloglevel: []
diff --git a/roles/logging/handlers/main.yml b/roles/logging/handlers/main.yml
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+---
+# handlers file for openwrt-logging
+- name: reload log
+  raw: /etc/init.d/log reload
diff --git a/roles/logging/meta/main.yml b/roles/logging/meta/main.yml
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+---
+galaxy_info:
+  author: Jan Wagner
+  description: configure logging aspects of your openwrt system.
+  license: BSD
+  min_ansible_version: 1.7
+  platforms: []
+  # - Openwrt
+  #   versions:
+  #   - 14.07
+  categories:
+    - system
+dependencies:
+  - { role: lefant.openwrt-uci }
diff --git a/roles/logging/tasks/main.yml b/roles/logging/tasks/main.yml
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+---
+# tasks file for openwrt-logging
+- name: set system logging parameters
+  uci: command=set key="system.@system[0].{{ item.key }}" value="{{ item.value }}"
+  with_dict:
+    system
+  when: (item.key | match("log_.*") or item.key | match(".*loglevel") or item.key == "buffersize") and item.value is defined
+  notify:
+    - uci commit
+    - reload log