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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-04-03 17:00:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-04-03 17:00:59 +0000 |
| commit | affcef6b121d9014eb7cc9c2bcfc20a2b0bcb2fd (patch) | |
| tree | a5b531ae796003ea17d068a08661920a3662cb66 /rsyslog.conf.5 | |
| parent | d90258ba84718cbff684a3d8eba22156c8487a1e (diff) | |
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some more man updates
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diff --git a/rsyslog.conf.5 b/rsyslog.conf.5 index d672a692..3c42288c 100644 --- a/rsyslog.conf.5 +++ b/rsyslog.conf.5 @@ -49,9 +49,6 @@ of modules. See the html documentation for their full description. .I omsnmp SNMP trap output module .TP -.I omrelp -RELP output module -.TP .I omgssapi Output module for GSS-enabled syslog .TP @@ -68,9 +65,6 @@ SQLLite, Ingres, Oracle, mSQL) .I imfile Input module for text files .TP -.I imrelp -RELP input module -.TP .I imudp Input plugin for UDP syslog. Replaces the deprecated -r option. Can be used like this: @@ -91,13 +85,24 @@ $InputTCPServerRun 514 Input plugin for plain TCP and GSS-enable syslog .TP .I immark -Dupport for mark messages +Support for mark messages .TP .I imklog -Kernel logging +Kernel logging. To include kernel log messages, you need to do +.IP +$ModLoad imklog + +Please note that the klogd daemon is no longer necessary and consequently +no longer provided by the rsyslog package. .TP .I imuxsock -Unix sockets, including the system log socket +Unix sockets, including the system log socket. You need to specify +.IP +$ModLoad imudp + +in order to receive log messages from local system processes. This +config directive should only left out if you know exactly what you +are doing. .SH BASIC STRUCTURE @@ -142,7 +147,16 @@ beginning with a slash ('/'). .B Example: .RS -*.* /var/log/traditionalfile.log;TraditionalFormat # log to a file in the traditional format +*.* /var/log/traditionalfile.log;RSYSLOG_TraditionalFormat # log to a file in the traditional format +.RE + +Note: if you would like to use high-precision timestamps in your log files, +just remove the ";RSYSLOG_TraditionalFormat". That will select the default +template, which, if not changed, uses RFC 3339 timestamps. + +.B Example: +.RS +*.* /var/log/file.log # log to a file with RFC3339 timestamps .RE .SS Named pipes @@ -670,7 +684,6 @@ the html documentation for all features and details. This is especially vital if up a more-then-extremely-simple system. .SH AUTHORS -The .B rsyslogd is taken from sysklogd sources, which have been heavily modified by Rainer Gerhards (rgerhards@adiscon.com) and others. |