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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2012-04-12 15:11:50 +0200
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2012-04-12 15:11:50 +0200
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Merge branch 'v5-beta'
Conflicts: ChangeLog configure.ac doc/manual.html plugins/imuxsock/imuxsock.c tools/syslogd.c
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diff --git a/doc/manual.html b/doc/manual.html
index 565b3758..8f74e806 100644
--- a/doc/manual.html
+++ b/doc/manual.html
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ rsyslog support</a> available directly from the source!</p>
<p><b>Please visit the <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/sponsors">rsyslog sponsor's page</a>
to honor the project sponsors or become one yourself!</b> We are very grateful for any help towards the
project goals.</p>
-<p><b>This documentation is for version 6.3.7 (devel branch) of rsyslog.</b>
+<p><b>This documentation is for version 6.3.8 (devel branch) of rsyslog.</b>
Visit the <i><a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/status">rsyslog status page</a></i></b>
to obtain current version information and project status.
</p><p><b>If you like rsyslog, you might
@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@ if you do not read the doc, but doing so will definitely improve your experience
<li><a href="generic_design.html">backgrounder on generic syslog application design</a></li>
<li><a href="modules.html">description of rsyslog modules</a></li>
<li><a href="rsyslog_packages.html">rsyslog packages</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://cookbook.rsyslog.com">the rsyslog "cookbook"</a> - a set of configurations ready to use</li>
</ul>
+<p><b>To keep current on rsyslog development, follow
+<a href="http://twitter.com/rgerhards">Rainer's twitter feed</a>.</b></p>
<p><b>We have some in-depth papers on</b></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="install.html">installing rsyslog</a></li>
@@ -106,14 +107,16 @@ online documentation (most current version only)</a></li>
mailing list</a>. If you are interested in the "backstage", you
may find
<a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer</a>'s
-<a href="http://rgerhards.blogspot.com/">blog</a> an
+<a href="http://blog.gerhards.net/">blog</a> an
interesting read (filter on syslog and rsyslog tags).
+Or meet <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Rainer-Gerhards/1349393098">Rainer Gerhards at Facebook</a>
+or <a href="https://plus.google.com/112402185904751517878/posts">Google+</a>.
If you would like to use rsyslog source code inside your open source project, you can do that without
any restriction as long as your license is GPLv3 compatible. If your license is incompatible to GPLv3,
you may even be still permitted to use rsyslog source code. However, then you need to look at the way
<a href="licensing.html">rsyslog is licensed</a>.</p>
<p>Feedback is always welcome, but if you have a support question, please do not
mail Rainer directly (<a href="free_support.html">why not?</a>) - use the
-<a href="http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog">rsyslogmailing list</a>
+<a href="http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog">rsyslog mailing list</a>
or <a href="http://kb.monitorware.com/rsyslog-f40.html">rsyslog formum</a> instead.
</body></html>
diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html
index 8cfdd303..6c20f4c2 100644
--- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html
+++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html
@@ -153,15 +153,6 @@ our paper on <a href="multi_ruleset.html">using multiple rule sets in rsyslog</a
<li><a href="rsconf1_gssforwardservicename.html">$GssForwardServiceName</a></li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_gsslistenservicename.html">$GssListenServiceName</a></li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_gssmode.html">$GssMode</a></li>
-<li>$HUPisRestart [on/<b>off</b>] - if set to on, a HUP is a full daemon restart. This means any queued messages are discarded (depending
-on queue configuration, of course) all modules are unloaded and reloaded. This mode keeps compatible with sysklogd, but is
-not recommended for use with rsyslog. To do a full restart, simply stop and start the daemon. The default (since 4.5.1) is "off".
-If it is set to "off", a HUP will only close open files. This is a much quicker action and usually
-the only one that is needed e.g. for log rotation. <b>Restart-type HUPs (value "on") are depricated</b>
-and will go away in rsyslog v5. So it is a good idea to change anything that needs it, now.
-Usually that should not be a big issue, as the restart-type HUP can easily be replaced by
-something along the lines of &quot;/etc/init.d/rsyslog restart&quot;.
-</li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_includeconfig.html">$IncludeConfig</a></li><li>MainMsgQueueCheckpointInterval &lt;number&gt;</li>
<li><b>$LocalHostName</b> [name] - this directive permits to overwrite the system
hostname with the one specified in the directive. If the directive is given
diff --git a/doc/v5compatibility.html b/doc/v5compatibility.html
index cc875b7b..fc4289c5 100644
--- a/doc/v5compatibility.html
+++ b/doc/v5compatibility.html
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ available. This processing was redundant and had a lot a drawbacks.
For details, please see the
<a href="v4compatibility.html">rsyslog v4 compatibility notes</a> which elaborate
on the reasons and the (few) things you may need to change.
+<p>Please note that starting with 5.8.11 HUP will also requery the local hostname.
<h2>Queue on-disk format</h2>
<p>The queue information file format has been changed. When upgrading from v4 to
v5, make sure that the queue is emptied and no on-disk structure present. We did
diff --git a/doc/version_naming.html b/doc/version_naming.html
index 8c1b9187..3bfa19bb 100644
--- a/doc/version_naming.html
+++ b/doc/version_naming.html
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ versions. It applies to versions 1.0.0 and above. Versions below that
are all unstable and have a different naming schema.</p>
<p><b>Please note that version naming is currently being
changed. There is a
-<a href="http://rgerhards.blogspot.com/2007/08/on-rsyslog-versions.html">blog
+<a href="http://blog.gerhards.net/2007/08/on-rsyslog-versions.html">blog
post about future rsyslog versions</a>.</b></p>
<p>The major version is incremented whenever a considerate, major
features have been added. This is expected to happen quite infrequently.</p>
@@ -127,4 +127,4 @@ expected to happen quite infrequently.</p>
<p>In general, the unstable branch carries all new development.
Once it concludes with a sufficiently-enhanced, quite stable version, a
new major stable version is assigned.</p>
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+</body></html>