added ability to execute actions only after the n-th call of the action

This also lead to the addition of two new config directives:
$ActionExecOnlyEveryNthTime and $ActionExecOnlyEveryNthTimeTimeout
This feature is useful, for example, for alerting: it permits you to
send an alert only after at least n occurences of a specific message
have been seen by rsyslogd. This protectes against false positives
due to waiting for additional confirmation.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/action.h b/action.h
index 99108aab..c910fc1c 100644
--- a/action.h
+++ b/action.h
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ struct action_s {
 	int	iResumeInterval;/* resume interval for this action */
 	int	iResumeRetryCount;/* how often shall we retry a suspended action? (-1 --> eternal) */
 	int	iNbrResRtry;	/* number of retries since last suspend */
+	int	iNbrNoExec;	/* number of matches that did not yet yield to an exec */
+	int	iExecEveryNthOccur;/* execute this action only every n-th occurence (with n=0,1 -> always) */
+	int  	iExecEveryNthOccurTO;/* timeout for n-th occurence feature */
+	time_t  tLastOccur;	/* time last occurence was seen (for timing them out) */
 	struct modInfo_s *pMod;/* pointer to output module handling this selector */
 	void	*pModData;	/* pointer to module data - content is module-specific */
 	int	f_ReduceRepeated;/* reduce repeated lines 0 - no, 1 - yes */