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diff --git a/doc/imuxsock.html b/doc/imuxsock.html index ee367dbc..3beabe94 100644 --- a/doc/imuxsock.html +++ b/doc/imuxsock.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en"><title>Unix Socket Input</title> - +<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en"> +<title>Unix Socket Input</title> </head> <body> <h1>Unix Socket Input</h1> @@ -25,15 +25,30 @@ $InputUnixListenSocketIgnoreMsgTimestamp and $SystemLogSocketIgnoreMsgTimestamp <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">$InputUnixListenSocketIgnoreMsgTimestamp</span> [<span style="font-weight: bold;">on</span>/off]<strong></strong><br>Ignore timestamps included in the message. Applies to the next socket being added.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">$SystemLogSocketIgnoreMsgTimestamp</span> [<span style="font-weight: bold;">on</span>/off]<br>Ignore timestamps included in the messages, applies to messages received via the system log socket.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">$OmitLocalLogging</span> (imuxsock) [on/<b>off</b>] -- former -o option</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">$SystemLogSocketName</span> <name-of-socket> -- -former -p option</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">$AddUnixListenSocket</span> <name-of-socket> adds -additional unix socket, default none -- former -a option</li></ul> +former -p option</li> +<li><b>$AddUnixListenSocket</b> <name-of-socket> adds additional unix socket, default none -- former -a option</li> +<li><b>$InputUnixListenSocketHostName</b> <hostname> permits to override the hostname that +shall be used inside messages taken from the <b>next</b> $AddUnixListenSocket socket. Note that +the hostname must be specified before the $AddUnixListenSocket configuration directive, and it +will only affect the next one and then automatically be reset. This functionality is provided so +that the local hostname can be overridden in cases where that is desired.</li> +</ul> <b>Caveats/Known Bugs:</b><br> <br> This documentation is sparse and incomplete. <p><b>Sample:</b></p> <p>The following sample is the minimum setup required to accept syslog messages from applications running on the local system.<br> </p> -<textarea rows="15" cols="60">$ModLoad imuxsock # needs to be done just once +<textarea rows="2" cols="60">$ModLoad imuxsock # needs to be done just once +</textarea> +<p>The following sample is a configuration where rsyslogd pulls logs from two +jails, and assigns different hostnames to each of the jails: </p> +<textarea rows="6" cols="60">$ModLoad imuxsock # needs to be done just once + +$InputUnixListenSocketHostName jail1.example.net +$AddUnixListenSocket /jail/1/dev/log +$InputUnixListenSocketHostName jail2.example.net +$AddUnixListenSocket /jail/2/dev/log </textarea> <p>[<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">rsyslog.conf overview</a>] [<a href="manual.html">manual index</a>] [<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog site</a>]</p> @@ -44,4 +59,4 @@ Copyright © 2008 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and <a href="http://www.adiscon.com/">Adiscon</a>. Released under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.</font></p> -</body></html>
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