added new config option $ActionWriteAllMarkMessages

this option permites to process mark messages under all circumstances,
even if an action was recently called. This can be useful to use mark
messages as a kind of heartbeat.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html
index f37dcc5a..4a88a97e 100644
--- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html
+++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html
@@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ that it should be not be much more often than once per second).</li>
 <li><b>$ActionSendUDPRebindInterval</b> nbr</a>- [available since 4.3.2] - instructs the UDP send
 action to rebind the send socket every nbr of messages sent. Zero, the default, means
 that no rebind is done. This directive is useful for use with load-balancers.</li>
+<li><b>$ActionWriteAllMarkMessages</b> [on/<b>off</b>]- [available since 5.1.5] - normally, mark messages
+are written to actions only if the action was not recently executed (by default, recently means within the
+past 20 minutes). If this setting is switched to &quot;on&quot;, mark messages are always sent to actions,
+no matter how recently they have been executed. In this mode, mark messages can be used as a kind of
+heartbeat.
+</li>
 <li><a href="rsconf1_allowedsender.html">$AllowedSender</a></li>
 <li><a href="rsconf1_controlcharacterescapeprefix.html">$ControlCharacterEscapePrefix</a></li>
 <li><a href="rsconf1_debugprintcfsyslinehandlerlist.html">$DebugPrintCFSyslineHandlerList</a></li>