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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2012-01-18 14:51:33 +0100
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2012-01-18 14:51:33 +0100
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Merge branch 'v5-devel' into master
Conflicts: ChangeLog Makefile.am configure.ac doc/manual.html plugins/imptcp/imptcp.c plugins/imudp/imudp.c plugins/imuxsock/imuxsock.c runtime/parser.c template.c tools/omfwd.c tools/syslogd.c
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3 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/imuxsock.html b/doc/imuxsock.html
index f80bc598..734ae889 100644
--- a/doc/imuxsock.html
+++ b/doc/imuxsock.html
@@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ you must turn it on (via $SystemLogSocketAnnotate and $InputUnixListenSocketAnno
<li><b>$InputUnixListenSocketFlowControl</b> [on/<b>off</b>] - specifies if flow control should be applied
to the next socket.</li>
<li><b>$IMUXSockRateLimitInterval</b> [number] - specifies the rate-limiting
-interval in seconds. Default value is 5 seconds. Set it to 0 to turn rate limiting off.
+interval in seconds. Default value is 0, which turns off rate limiting. Set it to a number
+of seconds (5 recommended) to activate rate-limiting. The default of 0 has been choosen in 5.9.6+,
+as people experienced problems with this feature activated by default. Now it needs an
+explicit opt-in by setting this parameter.
</li>
<li><b>$IMUXSockRateLimitBurst</b> [number] - specifies the rate-limiting
burst in number of messages. Default is 200.
diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html
index 21786a7f..b254f366 100644
--- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html
+++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ our paper on <a href="multi_ruleset.html">using multiple rule sets in rsyslog</a
<li><a href="rsconf1_escape8bitcharsonreceive.html">$Escape8BitCharactersOnReceive</a></li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_escapecontrolcharactersonreceive.html">$EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive</a></li>
<li><b>$EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive</b> [<b>on</b>|off] - escape USASCII HT character</li>
+<li>$SpaceLFOnReceive [on/<b>off</b>] - instructs rsyslogd to replace LF with spaces during message reception (sysklogd compatibility aid)</li>
<li>$ErrorMessagesToStderr [<b>on</b>|off] - direct rsyslogd error message to stderr (in addition to other targets)</li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_failonchownfailure.html">$FailOnChownFailure</a></li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_filecreatemode.html">$FileCreateMode</a></li>
diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_templates.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_templates.html
index 23a02049..bd0b3253 100644
--- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_templates.html
+++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_templates.html
@@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ with high-precision timestamps and timezone information</li>
useful if you send&nbsp;messages to other syslogd's or rsyslogd
below
version 3.12.5.</li>
+<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">RSYSLOG_SysklogdFileFormat</span>
+- sysklogd compatible log file format. If used with options: $SpaceLFOnReceive on;
+$EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive off; $DropTrailingLFOnReception off,
+the log format will conform to sysklogd log format.</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">RSYSLOG_ForwardFormat</span>
- a new high-precision forwarding format very similar to the
traditional one, but with high-precision timestamps and timezone