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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2012-04-07 14:44:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2012-04-07 14:44:12 +0200 |
| commit | d53016962da179c52ad22600bd54ffd58f86a81c (patch) | |
| tree | f557da4c02f73f13df76347078d7bc2388fdd89d /doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html | |
| parent | cacb817fa3f6b78bad9e13f56d0fa1ed7d0366c1 (diff) | |
| parent | bd8d972a975ce794dd71c1c8db724991dd4744a0 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'v5-stable-newstats' into v5-devel
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diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html index b254f366..e24b0c15 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html @@ -302,6 +302,19 @@ the value, the less precise the timestamp. <li><b>$Sleep</b> <seconds> - puts the rsyslog main thread to sleep for the specified number of seconds immediately when the directive is encountered. You should have a good reason for using this directive!</li> +<li><b>$LocalHostIPIF</b> <interface name> - (available since 5.9.6) - if provided, the IP of the specified +interface (e.g. "eth0") shall be used as fromhost-ip for locall-originating messages. +If this directive is not given OR the interface cannot be found (or has no IP address), +the default of "127.0.0.1" is used. Note that this directive can be given only +once. Trying to reset will result in an error message and the new value will +be ignored. Please note that modules must have support for obtaining the local +IP address set via this directive. While this is the case for rsyslog-provided +modules, it may not always be the case for contributed plugins. +<br><b>Important:</b> This directive shall be placed <b>right at the top of +rsyslog.conf</b>. Otherwise, if error messages are triggered before this directive +is processed, rsyslog will fix the local host IP to "127.0.0.1", what than can +not be reset. +</li> <li><a href="rsconf1_umask.html">$UMASK</a></li> </ul> <p><b>Where <size_nbr> is specified above,</b> |