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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2007-09-06 15:02:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2007-09-06 15:02:48 +0000 |
| commit | 62db9e53bd64b3c4ebd381e0d30c84e891aa9e00 (patch) | |
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added template and info for forwarding messages to sysklogd
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diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html index 69760053..b596ee09 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html @@ -525,6 +525,13 @@ framing and maximum compression to the host 192.168.0.1 at port 1470.</p> <p>In the example above, messages are forwarded via UDP to the machine 192.168.0.1, the destination port defaults to 514. Messages will not be compressed.</p> +<p><b>Note to sysklogd users:</b> sysklogd does <b>not</b> support RFC 3164 +format, which is the default forwarding template in rsyslog. As such, you will +experience duplicate hostnames if rsyslog is the sender and sysklogd is the +receiver. The fix is simple: you need to use a different template. Use that one:</p> +<p class="MsoPlainText">$template sysklogd,"<%PRI%>%TIMESTAMP% +%syslogtag%%msg%\""<br> +*.* @192.168.0.1;sysklogd</p> <h3>List of Users</h3> <p>Usually critical messages are also directed to ``root'' on that machine. You can specify a list of users that shall get the message by simply writing the login. |