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diff --git a/doc/install.html b/doc/install.html index bee136ce..849c4ffe 100644 --- a/doc/install.html +++ b/doc/install.html @@ -53,7 +53,18 @@ the rsyslogd and the man pages to the relevant directories.</p> <p>In this step, you tell rsyslogd what to do with received messages. If you are upgrading from stock syslogd, /etc/syslog.conf is probably a good starting point. Rsyslogd understands stock syslogd syntax, so you can simply copy over -/etc/syslog.conf to /etc/rsyslog.conf. Then, edit rsyslog.conf for any +/etc/syslog.conf to /etc/rsyslog.conf. Note since version 3 rsyslog requires +to load plug-in modules to perform useful work (more about +<a href="v3compatibility.html">compatibilty notes v3</a>). To load the most common plug-ins, +add the following to the top of rsyslog.conf:</p> +<p> +$ModLoad immark # provides --MARK-- message capability +$ModLoad imudp # provides UDP syslog reception +$ModLoad imtcp # provides TCP syslog reception and GSS-API (if compiled to support it) +$ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging (e.g. via logger command) +$ModLoad imklog # provides kernel logging support (previously done by rklogd) +</p> +Change rsyslog.conf for any further enhancements you would like to see. For example, you can add database writing as outlined in the paper "<a href="rsyslog_mysql.html">Writing syslog Data to MySQL</a>" (remember you need to enable MySQL support during step 2 if you want to do |