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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2010-08-06 17:25:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2010-08-06 17:25:38 +0200 |
| commit | 80ff634c841d692c1d9f335b88e225d6ce7317f7 (patch) | |
| tree | d7db3f16ab7fbd187f0b02d2746292cc335bb526 /doc | |
| parent | 1be79730693be187e99319377cf110fba41cc801 (diff) | |
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added omuxsock, which permits to write message to local Unix sockets
this is the counterpart to imuxsock, enabling fast local forwarding
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/Makefile.am | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/imuxsock.html | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/omuxsock.html | 43 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/rsyslog_conf_modules.html | 1 |
4 files changed, 46 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am index 5beebf0e..24a0ea74 100644 --- a/doc/Makefile.am +++ b/doc/Makefile.am @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ html_files = \ gssapi.html \ licensing.html \ ommail.html \ + omuxsock.html \ omrelp.html \ syslog_parsing.html \ troubleshoot.html \ diff --git a/doc/imuxsock.html b/doc/imuxsock.html index 15c365a6..381374d2 100644 --- a/doc/imuxsock.html +++ b/doc/imuxsock.html @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ $InputUnixListenSocketHostName /var/run/sshd/dev/log <p><font size="2">This documentation is part of the <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog</a> project.<br> -Copyright © 2008 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer +Copyright © 2008-2010 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and <a href="http://www.adiscon.com/">Adiscon</a>. Released under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.</font></p> diff --git a/doc/omuxsock.html b/doc/omuxsock.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4ffc53eb --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/omuxsock.html @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html><head><title>Unix sockets output module (omuxsock) - sending syslog messages to local socket</title> +<a href="features.html">back</a> +</head> +<body> +<h1>Mail Output Module (omuxsock)</h1> +<p><b>Module Name: omuxsock</b></p> +<p><b>Available since: </b> 4.7.3, 5.5.7</p> +<p><b>Author: </b>Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com></p> +<p><b>Description</b>:</p> +<p>This module supports sending syslog messages to local Unix sockets. +Thus it provided a fast message-passing interface between different rsyslog +instances. The counterpart to omuxsock is <a href="imuxsock.html">imuxsock</a>. +Note that the template used together with omuxsock must be suitable to be +processed by the receiver. +<p><b>Configuration Directives</b>:</p> +<ul> +<li><b>$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> diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_modules.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_modules.html index c36b8c6d..a6555c1a 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_modules.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_modules.html @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ SQLLite, Ingres, Oracle, mSQL)</li> <li><a href="ommail.html">ommail</a> - permits rsyslog to alert folks by mail if something important happens</li> <li><a href="omoracle.html">omoracle</a> - output module for Oracle (native OCI interface)</li> +<li><a href="omuxsock.html">omuxsock</a> - output module Unix domain sockets</li> </ul> <h2>Library Modules</h2> |