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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2005-08-10 08:42:33 +0000
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-Welcome to the rsyslog package for Linux. This package has
-been forked from the sysklogd standard package. The goal of the
-rsyslog project is to provide a more configurable and reliable
-syslog deamon. By "reliable", we mean support for reliable transmission
-modes like TCP or RFC 3195 (syslog-reliable).
-We do NOT imply that the sysklogd package is unreliable. In fact, the
-opposite is the case and we assume that for the time being the well-
-used sysklogd package offers better program reliability than our
-brand-new modifications to it. The name "rsyslog" stems back to the
-planned support for syslog-reliable. Ironically, all releases
-of rsyslog up to now do NEITHER support syslog-reliable NOR tcp based syslog.
-Instead, it contains enhanced configurability and other enhancements
-(like database support). The reason for this is that full support for
-RFC 3195 would require even more changes and especially fundamental architectural
-changes. Also, questions asked on the loganalysis list and at other
-places indicated that RFC3195 is NOT a prime priority for users, but
-rather better control over the output format. So here we are, with
-a rsyslogd that covers a lot of enhancements, but not a single one
-of these that made its name ;)
-
-The next enhancement scheduled is support for the new syslog-protocol
-internet draft format, not the least to see how easy/compliated it is
-to implement. We already know that some subleties of syslog-protocol will
-require at least one considerable architectural change to the syslogd
-and this might delay things a little. Our immediate goal is to receive
-feedback and get the bugs out of the current release. Only after that
-we intend to advance the code and introduce new features.
-
-The database support was included so that our web-based syslog interface
-can be used. This is another open source project which can be found
-under http://www.liblogging.org . We highly recommend having a look at
-it. It might not work for you if you expect thousands of messages per
-second (because your database won't be able to provide adequate performace),
-but in many cases it is a very handy analysis and troubleshooting tool.
-
-The utility (rsyslogd) can be either run from init or started
-as part of the rc.* sequence. Caution should be used when starting
-it from init since the default configuration is for it
-is to auto-background itself. Depending on the
-version of init being used this could either result in the process
-table being filled or at least 10 copies of the daemon being started.
-If auto-backgrounding is NOT desired the command line option -n should
-be used to disable the auto-fork feature.
-
-There is a mailing list covering this package and syslog in general.
-The lists address is rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com .
-
-New versions of this package and additional information will be available
-under www.monitorware.com/rsyslog as well as under the rsyslog project
-on sourceforge.net.
-
-IMPORTANT
-Starting with version 0.9.0, rsyslogd supports files larger than 2gb.
-This was added simply by some c compiler definitions which ask the run
-time library to include different code. Depending on your file system,
-glibc, kernel or whatever, you might not be able to use this support. If
-so, rsyslogd might be terminated by the operating system when a file
-reaches 2gb of size. To guard against this, use the output channel
-file size limitation (see man rsyslog.conf for details).
-
-Best regards,
-Rainer Gerhards
-Adiscon
-2005-06-22
+This file has been superseeded by the fils in the doc folder.
+Please see doc/manual.html for futher details. If you are
+looking for install informaton doc/install.html is for you!