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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2011-10-25 14:59:29 +0200
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2011-10-25 14:59:29 +0200
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doc: imfile: clarified that empty lines are not processed
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@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ text file is a file consisting of printable characters with lines
being&nbsp;delimited by LF.</p>
<p>The file is read line-by-line and any line read is passed to
rsyslog's rule engine. The rule engine applies filter conditons and
-selects which actions needs to be carried out.</p>
+selects which actions needs to be carried out. Empty lines are <b>not</b>
+processed, as they would result in empty syslog records. They are simply
+ignored.</p>
<p>As new lines are written they are taken from the file and
processed. Please note that this happens based on a polling interval
and not immediately. The file monitor support file rotation. To fully