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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2010-03-17 16:25:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2010-03-17 16:25:24 +0100 |
| commit | ba0f23182a55b26b2265d2138c707cbc7ddbb72e (patch) | |
| tree | b11487a65eade6e5bfcbf15de4f979a0197db55b /doc | |
| parent | d7faed130cb089343ea3d9875561582e6f1d469f (diff) | |
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new feature: "." action type added to support writing files to relative pathes
(this is primarily meant as a debug aid)
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_actions.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_actions.html index 8c4b9cfc..6020dd88 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_actions.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_actions.html @@ -37,8 +37,15 @@ compared to the otherwise-equal config directives below:</p> *.=crit /var/log/critmsgs</b></code></p> <p> </p> <h3>Regular File</h3> -<p>Typically messages are logged to real files. The file has to -be specified with full pathname, beginning with a slash "/''.<br> +<p>Typically messages are logged to real files. The file usually is +specified by full pathname, beginning with a slash "/". +Starting with version 4.6.2 and 5.4.1 (previous v5 version do NOT support this) +relative file names can also be specified. To do so, these must begin with a +dot. For example, use "./file-in-current-dir.log" to specify a file in the +current directory. Please note that rsyslogd usually changes its working +directory to the root, so relative file names must be tested with care (they +were introduced primarily as a debugging vehicle, but may have useful other applications +as well).<br> <br> <br> You may prefix each entry with the minus "-'' sign to omit syncing the |