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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2008-04-03 14:53:11 +0000
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2008-04-03 14:53:11 +0000
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.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
.\"
-.TH RSYSLOG.CONF 5 "02 April 2008" "Version 3.14.0" "Linux System Administration"
+.TH RSYSLOG.CONF 5 "03 April 2008" "Version 3.14.0" "Linux System Administration"
.SH NAME
rsyslog.conf \- rsyslogd(8) configuration file
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -40,6 +40,66 @@ to look at the html documentation, because the man pages only cover
basic aspects of operation.
+.SH MODULES
+
+Rsyslog has a modular design. Consequently, there is a growing number
+of modules. See the html documentation for their full description.
+
+.TP
+.I omsnmp
+SNMP trap output module
+.TP
+.I omrelp
+RELP output module
+.TP
+.I omgssapi
+Output module for GSS-enabled syslog
+.TP
+.I ommysql
+Output module for MySQL
+.TP
+.I ompgsql
+Output module for PostgreSQL
+.TP
+.I omlibdbi
+Generic database output module (Firebird/Interbase, MS SQL, Sybase,
+SQLLite, Ingres, Oracle, mSQL)
+.TP
+.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:
+.IP
+$ModLoad imudp
+.IP
+$InputUDPServerRun 514
+.TP
+.I imtcp
+Input plugin for plain TCP syslog. Replaces the deprecated -t
+option. Can be used like this:
+.IP
+$ModLoad imtcp
+.IP
+$InputTCPServerRun 514
+.TP
+.I imgssapi
+Input plugin for plain TCP and GSS-enable syslog
+.TP
+.I immark
+Dupport for mark messages
+.TP
+.I imklog
+Kernel logging
+.TP
+.I imuxsock
+Unix sockets, including the system log socket
+
+
.SH BASIC STRUCTURE
Lines starting with a hash mark ('#') and empty lines are ignored.