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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2007-07-23 10:36:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2007-07-23 10:36:29 +0000 |
| commit | fc208155aabf52504000057808af54186a886bad (patch) | |
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| parent | c4986ca6de5da6b5bdf4263032552f19bc3e1249 (diff) | |
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added $DropTrailingLFOnReception config directive
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diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html index bf30c681..37300a5e 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html @@ -160,6 +160,14 @@ here is set to "on", the malicious message will be completely dropped logs. If the option is set to "off", the message will be logged, but the original IP will be used instead of the DNS name.</p> <p><code><b>$DropMsgsWithMaliciousDnsPTRRecords on</b></code></p> +<h2>DropTrailingLFOnReception</h2> +<p>Syslog messages frequently have the line feed character (LF) as the last +character of the message. In allmost all cases, this LF should not really become +part of the message. However, recent IETF syslog standardization recommends +against modifying syslog messages (e.g. to keep digital signatures valid). This +option allows to specify if trailing LFs should be dropped or not. The default +is to drop them, which is consistent with what sysklogd does. To drop them, use</p> +<p><code><b>$DropTrailingLFOnRecption off</b></code></p> <h2>ControlCharacterEscapePrefix</h2> <p>This option specifies the prefix character to be used for control character escaping (see option $EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive). By default, it is '\', |