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author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2011-09-07 15:38:57 +0200 |
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committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2011-09-07 15:38:57 +0200 |
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Merge branch 'v4-beta' into v4-stable, prep for 4.8.0v4.8.0
There are no changes compared to 4.7.5, just a re-release with the new
version number as new v4-stable. The most important new feature is Solaris
support.
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diff --git a/doc/omuxsock.html b/doc/omuxsock.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5fa569eb --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/omuxsock.html @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html><head><title>Unix sockets output module (omuxsock) - sending syslog messages to local socket</title> +<a href="features.html">back</a> +</head> +<body> +<h1>Unix sockets Output Module (omuxsock)</h1> +<p><b>Module Name: omuxsock</b></p> +<p><b>Available since: </b> 4.7.3, 5.5.7</p> +<p><b>Author: </b>Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com></p> +<p><b>Description</b>:</p> +<p>This module supports sending syslog messages to local Unix sockets. +Thus it provided a fast message-passing interface between different rsyslog +instances. The counterpart to omuxsock is <a href="imuxsock.html">imuxsock</a>. +Note that the template used together with omuxsock must be suitable to be +processed by the receiver. +<p><b>Configuration Directives</b>:</p> +<ul> +<li><b>$OMUxSockSocket</b><br> +Name of the socket to send data to. This has no default and <b>must</b> +be set. +</li> +<li><b>$OMUxSockDefaultTemplate</b><br> +This can be used to override the default template to be used together +with omuxsock. This is primarily useful if there are many forwarding +actions and each of them should use the same template.</li> +</ul> +<b>Caveats/Known Bugs:</b> +<p>Currently, only datagram sockets are supported. +<p><b>Sample:</b></p> +<p>The following sample writes all messages to the "/tmp/socksample" socket. +</p> +<textarea rows="4" cols="80">$ModLoad omucsock +$OMUxSockSocket /tmp/socksample +*.* :omuxsock: +</textarea> +[<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 <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog</a> +project.<br> +Copyright © 2010 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and +<a href="http://www.adiscon.com/">Adiscon</a>. +Released under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.</font></p> + +</body></html> |