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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2011-10-25 15:00:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2011-10-25 15:00:09 +0200 |
| commit | e789097d32e335fa619cca135188e21c5c600faa (patch) | |
| tree | 529d07528a489ae01b109f49368891dd9876392b /doc | |
| parent | 16dc3aab3db9b8db4cb4fc8d241d4cd5d5362b8a (diff) | |
| parent | 68ac2ae9bc40557a3fdeb1239c8109a337264f7a (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'v5-stable' into beta
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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 |