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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2007-12-27 11:22:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2007-12-27 11:22:08 +0000 |
| commit | b39a751bbe832d98754cd3aa8cf08b53c85ca73c (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html index 183a6be7..95fe22a7 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html @@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ development and quite unstable...). So you have been warned ;)</p> <li><a href="rsconf1_repeatedmsgreduction.html">$RepeatedMsgReduction</a></li> <li><a href="rsconf1_resetconfigvariables.html">$ResetConfigVariables</a></li> <li>$SystemLogSocketName <name-of-socket> -- former -p option</li> - <li>$UDPListenPort <port> (imudp) -- former -r<port> option, default 514</li> + <li>$UDPServerAddress <IP> (imudp) -- local IP address (or name) the UDP + listens should bind to</li> + <li>$UDPServerRun <port> (imudp) -- former -r<port> option, default 514, + start UDP server on this port, "*" means all addresses</li> <li><a href="rsconf1_umask.html">$UMASK</a></li> </ul> <h2>Basic Structure</h2> diff --git a/doc/v3compatibility.html b/doc/v3compatibility.html index a0b1e9c6..ab45801b 100644 --- a/doc/v3compatibility.html +++ b/doc/v3compatibility.html @@ -24,10 +24,32 @@ mark period. If you need a 20 minute mark period you need to</P> <P><b>$ModLoad immark # wherever this is<br> $MarkMessageInterval 1800 # 20 minutes</b></P> <h2>-r command line option</h2> -<p>Is also no longer available. Use</p> +<p>Is also no longer available. Use the <b>$UDPSeverRun <port></b> config file +directives. You can now also set the local address the server should listen to +via <b>$UDPServerAddress <ip></b> config directive.</p> +<p>The following example configures an UDP syslog server at the local address +192.0.2.1 on port 514:</p> <p><b>$ModLoad imudp<br> -$UDPListenPort <port></b></p> -<p>config file directives.</p> +$UDPSeverAddress 192.0.2.1 # this MUST be before the $UDPServerRun directive!<br> +$UDPServerRun 514</b></p> +<p>"$UDPServerAddress *" means listen on all local interfaces. This is the +default if no directive is specified.</p> +<p>Please note that now multiple listeners are supported. For example, you can +do the following:</p> +<p><b>$ModLoad imudp<br> +$UDPSeverAddress 192.0.2.1 # this MUST be before the $UDPServerRun directive!<br> +$UDPServerRun 514<br> +$UDPSeverAddress * # all local interfaces<br> +$UDPServerRun 1514</b></p> +<p>These config file settings run two listeners: one at192.0.2.1:514 and one on +port 1514, which listens on all local interfaces.</p> +<h2>Default port for UDP (and TCP) Servers</h2> +<p>Please note that with pre-v3 rsyslogd, a service database lookup was made +when a UDP server was started and no port was configured. Only if that failed, +the IANA default of 514 was used. For TCP serves, this lookup was never done and +514 always used if no specific port was configured. For consitency, both TCP and +UDP now use port 514 as default. If a lookup is desired, you need to specify it +in the "Run" directive, e.g. "<i>$UDPServerRun syslog</i>".</p> <h2>klogd</h2> <P>klogd has (finally) been replaced by a loadable input module. To enable klogd functionality, do</P> |