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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2011-10-25 14:59:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2011-10-25 14:59:55 +0200 |
| commit | 68ac2ae9bc40557a3fdeb1239c8109a337264f7a (patch) | |
| tree | 2ce64b6c485d20e672e5535db7252229ed73b85f /doc | |
| parent | f3a7232069730e94519d7cc06fe0d82bf21b0162 (diff) | |
| parent | 48e01bf4154aedd635c77094ecb58858af2b4c3b (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'v4-stable' into v5-stable
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diff --git a/doc/imfile.html b/doc/imfile.html index 60726ceb..c44171df 100644 --- a/doc/imfile.html +++ b/doc/imfile.html @@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ text file is a file consisting of printable characters with lines being delimited by LF.</p> <p>The file is read line-by-line and any line read is passed to rsyslog's rule engine. The rule engine applies filter conditons and -selects which actions needs to be carried out.</p> +selects which actions needs to be carried out. Empty lines are <b>not</b> +processed, as they would result in empty syslog records. They are simply +ignored.</p> <p>As new lines are written they are taken from the file and processed. Please note that this happens based on a polling interval and not immediately. The file monitor support file rotation. To fully |