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-<html>
-<head>
-<title>rsyslog features</title>
-</head>
-<body>
-<h1>RSyslog - Features</h1>
-<p><b>This page lists both current features as well as those being considered
-for future versions of rsyslog.</b> If you think a feature is missing, drop
-<a href="mailto:rgerhards@adiscon.com">Rainer</a> a note. Rsyslog is a vital
-project. Features are added each few days. If you would like to keep up of what
-is going on, you can also subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog">rsyslog mailing list</a>.
-</p>
-<h2>Current Features</h2>
-<ul>
-
- <li>native support for <a href="rsyslog_mysql.html">writing to MySQL databases</a><li>support for (plain) tcp
- based syslog - much better reliability<li>support for sending and receiving
- compressed syslog messages<li>support for receiving messages via reliable <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/Common/en/glossary/rfc3195.php"> RFC 3195</a> delivery<li>control of log output format,
- including ability to present channel and priority as visible log data<li>good timestamp format control; at a minimum, ISO 8601/RFC 3339
- second-resolution UTC zone<li>ability to reformat message contents and work with substrings<li>support for
- log files larger than 2gb<li>support for file size limitation and automatic
- rollover command execution<li>support for running multiple rsyslogd
- instances on a single machine<li>support for <a href="rsyslog_stunnel.html">
- ssl-protected syslog</a> (via stunnel)<li>ability to filter on any part of
- the message, not just facility and severity<li>support for discarding
- messages based on filters<li>ability to execute shell scripts on received
- messages<li>control of whether the local hostname or the hostname of the
- origin of the data is shown as the hostname in the output<li>ability to
- preserve the original hostname in NAT environments and relay chains
- <li>ability to limit the allowed network senders<li>powerful BSD-style hostname and program name blocks for easy multi-host support<li> multi-threaded - currently experimental<li>very experimental and volatile support for <a href="syslog-protocol.html">syslog-protocol</a> compliant messages (it is volatile because standardization is currently underway and this is a proof-of-concept implementation to aid this effort)<li>
- experimental support for syslog-transport-tls based framing on syslog/tcp
- connections<li>
- a copy of klogd.c has been included under the name of rklogd for those Linux
- systems that need one. So rsyslog is a full replacement for the sysklogd
- package</ul>
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
-<h2>Upcoming Features</h2>
-<ul>
- <li>support for native SSL enryption of plain tcp syslog sessions. This will
- most probably happen based on syslog-transport-tls.<li>even more enhanced multi-threading<li>support for <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/Common/en/glossary/rfc3195.php">RFC 3195</a> as a sender - planned<li>pcre filtering - maybe (depending on feedback)&nbsp; - simple regex already
- partly added. So far, this seems sufficient so that there is no urgent</ul>
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
-<p>To see when each feature was added, see the
-<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/Topic4.phtml">rsyslog change log</a> (online
-only).</p>
-</body>
-</html>
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>rsyslog features</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>RSyslog - Features</h1>
+<p><b>This page lists both current features as well as those being considered
+for future versions of rsyslog.</b> If you think a feature is missing, drop
+<a href="mailto:rgerhards@adiscon.com">Rainer</a> a note. Rsyslog is a vital
+project. Features are added each few days. If you would like to keep up of what
+is going on, you can also subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog">rsyslog mailing list</a>.
+</p>
+<h2>Current Features</h2>
+<ul>
+
+ <li>native support for <a href="rsyslog_mysql.html">writing to MySQL databases</a><li>support for (plain) tcp
+ based syslog - much better reliability<li>support for sending and receiving
+ compressed syslog messages<li>support for receiving messages via reliable <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/Common/en/glossary/rfc3195.php"> RFC 3195</a> delivery<li>control of log output format,
+ including ability to present channel and priority as visible log data<li>good timestamp format control; at a minimum, ISO 8601/RFC 3339
+ second-resolution UTC zone<li>ability to reformat message contents and work with substrings<li>support for
+ log files larger than 2gb<li>support for file size limitation and automatic
+ rollover command execution<li>support for running multiple rsyslogd
+ instances on a single machine<li>support for <a href="rsyslog_stunnel.html">
+ ssl-protected syslog</a> (via stunnel)<li>ability to filter on any part of
+ the message, not just facility and severity<li>support for discarding
+ messages based on filters<li>ability to execute shell scripts on received
+ messages<li>control of whether the local hostname or the hostname of the
+ origin of the data is shown as the hostname in the output<li>ability to
+ preserve the original hostname in NAT environments and relay chains
+ <li>ability to limit the allowed network senders<li>powerful BSD-style hostname and program name blocks for easy multi-host support<li> multi-threaded<li>very experimental and volatile support for <a href="syslog-protocol.html">syslog-protocol</a> compliant messages (it is volatile because standardization is currently underway and this is a proof-of-concept implementation to aid this effort)<li>
+ experimental support for syslog-transport-tls based framing on syslog/tcp
+ connections<li>
+ a copy of klogd.c has been included under the name of rklogd for those Linux
+ systems that need one. So rsyslog is a full replacement for the sysklogd
+ package<li>
+ support for IPv6 (currently UDP only, but TCP will be added soon)</ul>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h2>Upcoming Features</h2>
+<ul>
+ <li>support for native SSL enryption of plain tcp syslog sessions. This will
+ most probably happen based on syslog-transport-tls.<li>even more enhanced multi-threading<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
+ 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>
+<p>To see when each feature was added, see the
+<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/Topic4.phtml">rsyslog change log</a> (online
+only).</p>
+</body>
+</html>