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package<li>
support for IPv6<li>
ability to control repeated line reduction (&quot;last message repeated n times&quot;)
- on a per selector-line basis</ul>
+ on a per selector-line basis<li>
+ supports sub-configuration files, which can be automatically read from
+ directories. Includes are specified in the main configuration file</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Upcoming Features</h2>
<p>The list below is something like a repository of ideas we'd like to
@@ -50,7 +52,8 @@ reach of implementation. Users are encouraged to submit feature requests there
soon to be implemented&quot;), they will possibly be migrated to this list here and
at some time moved back to the sourceforge tracker.</p>
<ul>
- <li>create a plug-in-interface<li>implement native email-functionality in
+ <li>create a plug-in-interface - we are very close to this. A neat interface is
+ already used internally for output modules.<li>implement native email-functionality in
selector (probably best done as a plug-in)<li>port it to more *nix variants
(eg AIX and HP UX) - this needs volunteers with access to those machines and
knowledge<li>provide an on-disk queue for syslog messages; should be
@@ -59,7 +62,8 @@ at some time moved back to the sourceforge tracker.</p>
with a message queue for each selector line (when implementing this, search
for CHECKMULTIQUEUE comments in the source - they already contain hints of
what to look at).<li>pcre filtering - maybe (depending on feedback)&nbsp; - simple regex already
- partly added. So far, this seems sufficient so that there is no urgent<li>support for <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/Common/en/glossary/rfc3195.php">RFC 3195</a> as a sender - this is currently unlikely to happen, because there is no real
+ partly added. So far, this seems sufficient so that there is no urgent need
+ to do pcre<li>support for <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/Common/en/glossary/rfc3195.php">RFC 3195</a> as a sender - this is currently unlikely to happen, because there is no real
demand for it. Any work on RFC 3195 has been suspend until we see some real
interest in it.&nbsp; It is probably much better to use TCP-based syslog,
which is interoprable with a large number of applications.</ul>