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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2012-03-06 17:26:04 +0100
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2012-03-06 17:26:04 +0100
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added capability to use a local interface IP address as fromhost-ip for imuxsock
new config directives: $IMUXSockLocalIPIF
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@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ burst in number of messages. Default is 200.
<li><b>$IMUXSockRateLimitSeverity</b> [numerical severity] - specifies the severity of
messages that shall be rate-limited.
</li>
+<li><b>$IMUXSockLocalIPIF</b> [interface name] - if provided, the IP of the specified
+interface (e.g. "eth0") shall be used as fromhost-ip for imuxsock-originating messages.
+If this directive is not given OR the interface cannot be found (or has no IP address),
+the default of "127.0.0.1" is used.
+</li>
<li><b>$InputUnixListenSocketUsePIDFromSystem</b> [on/<b>off</b>] - specifies if the pid being logged shall
be obtained from the log socket itself. If so, the TAG part of the message is rewritten.
It is recommended to turn this option on, but the default is "off" to keep compatible
@@ -150,7 +155,7 @@ $SystemLogRateLimitInterval 0 # turn off rate limiting
<p><font size="2">This documentation is part of the
<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog</a>
project.<br>
-Copyright &copy; 2008-2010 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer
+Copyright &copy; 2008-2012 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer
Gerhards</a> and
<a href="http://www.adiscon.com/">Adiscon</a>.
Released under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.</font></p>