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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-02-28 13:25:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-02-28 13:25:43 +0000 |
| commit | e06557a4cd02069579a8af060a461b88a676caab (patch) | |
| tree | 7688896e7a24ea963500941358fe6774cbf789d3 /doc/debug.html | |
| parent | 8f199e7b5a420d34ac40775fe8ff7abf82ed687f (diff) | |
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implemented environment-settable debug options
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diff --git a/doc/debug.html b/doc/debug.html index ad53d94f..d4f00e53 100644 --- a/doc/debug.html +++ b/doc/debug.html @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en"><title>Debug Support</title> - -</head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en"><title>Debug Support</title></head> <body> <h1>Debug Support</h1> <p> @@ -19,14 +17,14 @@ to go away over time)</p> and a call stack) for the state when SIGUSR2 was received. This is a one-time output. Can be sent as often as the user likes.</p> <p style="font-weight: bold;">Environment Variables</p> -<p>Environment variables set several debug settings. This is -intended to become the primary way to configure debugging support. -Currently are defined:</p> -<ul> -<li>RSYSLOG_DEBUGLOG="/path/to/debuglog/" - writes (allmost) +<p>There are two environment variables that set several debug settings. The "RSYSLOG_DEBUGLOG" (sample: RSYSLOG_DEBUGLOG="/path/to/debuglog/") +writes (allmost) all debug message to the specified log file in addition to stdout. Some system messages (e.g. segfault or abort message) are not written to the -file as we can not capture them.</li> +file as we can not capture them. Runtime debug support is controlled by +"RSYSLOG_DEBUG". It contains an option string with the following +options possible (all are case insensitive):</p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">LogFuncFlow</span> - print out the logical flow of functions (entering and exiting them)</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">PrintFuncDB</span> - print the content of the debug function database whenever debug information is printed (e.g. abort case)!</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">PrintAllDebugInfoOnExit</span> - print all debug information immediately before rsyslogd exits (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">currently not implemented!</span>)</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">PrintMutexAction</span> - print mutex action as it happens. Useful for finding deadlocks and such.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">NoLogTimeStamp</span> - do not prefix log lines with a timestamp (default is to do that).</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">NoStdOut</span> - do not emit debug messages to stdout. If RSYSLOG_DEBUGLOG is not set, this means no messages will be displayed at all.</li></ul> +<ul> </ul> <p>[<a href="manual.html">manual index</a>] [<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog site</a>]</p> <p><font size="2">This documentation is part of the |