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authorMichael Meckelein <mmeckelein@hq.adiscon.com>2008-01-08 12:58:38 +0000
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@@ -53,7 +53,18 @@ the rsyslogd and the man pages to the relevant directories.</p>
<p>In this step, you tell rsyslogd what to do with received messages. If you are
upgrading from stock syslogd, /etc/syslog.conf is probably a good starting
point. Rsyslogd understands stock syslogd syntax, so you can simply copy over
-/etc/syslog.conf to /etc/rsyslog.conf. Then, edit rsyslog.conf for any
+/etc/syslog.conf to /etc/rsyslog.conf. Note since version 3 rsyslog requires
+to load plug-in modules to perform useful work (more about
+<a href="v3compatibility.html">compatibilty notes v3</a>). To load the most common plug-ins,
+add the following to the top of rsyslog.conf:</p>
+<p>
+$ModLoad immark # provides --MARK-- message capability
+$ModLoad imudp # provides UDP syslog reception
+$ModLoad imtcp # provides TCP syslog reception and GSS-API (if compiled to support it)
+$ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging (e.g. via logger command)
+$ModLoad imklog # provides kernel logging support (previously done by rklogd)
+</p>
+Change rsyslog.conf for any further
enhancements you would like to see. For example, you can add database writing as
outlined in the paper &quot;<a href="rsyslog_mysql.html">Writing syslog Data to MySQL</a>&quot;
(remember you need to enable MySQL support during step 2 if you want to do