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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2007-08-13 12:41:23 +0000
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2007-08-13 12:41:23 +0000
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@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ is going on, you can also subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.adiscon.net/mai
messages<li>control of whether the local hostname or the hostname of the
origin of the data is shown as the hostname in the output<li>ability to
preserve the original hostname in NAT environments and relay chains
- <li>ability to limit the allowed network senders<li>powerful BSD-style hostname and program name blocks for easy multi-host support<li> multi-threaded<li>very experimental and volatile support for <a href="syslog-protocol.html">syslog-protocol</a> compliant messages (it is volatile because standardization is currently underway and this is a proof-of-concept implementation to aid this effort)<li>
+ <li>ability to limit the allowed network senders<li>powerful BSD-style hostname and program name blocks for easy multi-host support<li> multi-threaded (<a href="http://rgerhards.blogspot.com/2007/08/why-is-rsyslog-multi-threaded-and-is-it.html">is
+ this important? why?</a>)<li>very experimental and volatile support for <a href="syslog-protocol.html">syslog-protocol</a> compliant messages (it is volatile because standardization is currently underway and this is a proof-of-concept implementation to aid this effort)<li>
experimental support for syslog-transport-tls based framing on syslog/tcp
connections<li>
a copy of klogd.c has been included under the name of rklogd for those Linux
@@ -62,9 +63,11 @@ at some time moved back to the sourceforge tracker.</p>
knowledge<li>provide an on-disk queue for syslog messages; should be
combined with reliable delivery to the next hop<li>support for native SSL enryption of plain tcp syslog sessions. This will
most probably happen based on syslog-transport-tls.<li>even more enhanced multi-threading,
- with a message queue for each selector line (when implementing this, search
+ with a message queue for each action (when implementing this, search
for CHECKMULTIQUEUE comments in the source - they already contain hints of
- what to look at).<li>pcre filtering - maybe (depending on feedback)&nbsp; - simple regex already
+ what to look at). Some detail information on this can already be found in
+ <a href="http://rgerhards.blogspot.com/2007/08/syslog-worker-pools-future-hardware-and.html">
+ Rainer's blog</a>.<li>pcre filtering - maybe (depending on feedback)&nbsp; - simple regex already
partly added. So far, this seems sufficient so that there is no urgent need
to do pcre<li>support for <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/Common/en/glossary/rfc3195.php">RFC 3195</a> as a sender - this is currently unlikely to happen, because there is no real
demand for it. Any work on RFC 3195 has been suspend until we see some real