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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2012-03-21 11:43:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2012-03-21 11:43:45 +0100 |
| commit | 49ec54d36984b9e91da7bd41e56e65dac22ce830 (patch) | |
| tree | 09bcb0b68f6ec337bc938e53d95840b75955ebbc /doc | |
| parent | dbc2efa6bea0a0ca7ded6d4a5f0378da0aab6936 (diff) | |
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milestone: added capability to use a local interface IP address as fromhost-ip
... for locally originating messages. New directive $LocalHostIPIF.
Note that not all modules yet support this new directive - next step...
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diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html index 21786a7f..86e4bab2 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html @@ -301,6 +301,19 @@ the value, the less precise the timestamp. <li><b>$Sleep</b> <seconds> - puts the rsyslog main thread to sleep for the specified number of seconds immediately when the directive is encountered. You should have a good reason for using this directive!</li> +<li><b>$LocalHostIPIF</b> <interface name> - (available since 5.9.6) - if provided, the IP of the specified +interface (e.g. "eth0") shall be used as fromhost-ip for locall-originating messages. +If this directive is not given OR the interface cannot be found (or has no IP address), +the default of "127.0.0.1" is used. Note that this directive can be given only +once. Trying to reset will result in an error message and the new value will +be ignored. Please note that modules must have support for obtaining the local +IP address set via this directive. While this is the case for rsyslog-provided +modules, it may not always be the case for contributed plugins. +<br><b>Important:</b> This directive shall be placed <b>right at the top of +rsyslog.conf</b>. Otherwise, if error messages are triggered before this directive +is processed, rsyslog will fix the local host IP to "127.0.0.1", what than can +not be reset. +</li> <li><a href="rsconf1_umask.html">$UMASK</a></li> </ul> <p><b>Where <size_nbr> is specified above,</b> |