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diff --git a/doc/modules.html b/doc/modules.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bd702596 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/modules.html @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +<html><head> +<title>Writing syslog Data to MySQL</title> +<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="syslog, mysql, syslog to mysql, howto"> +</head> +<body> +<h1>About rsyslog Modules</h1> + <P><small><i>Written by + <a href="http://www.adiscon.com/en/people/rainer-gerhards.php">Rainer + Gerhards</a> (2007-07-26)</i></small></P> +<p><font color="#FF0000"><b>This document is incomplete. The module interface is +also quite incomplete and under development. Do not currently use it!</b></font> +You may want to visit <a href="http://rgerhards.blogspot.com/">Rainer's blog</a> +to learn what's going on.</p> +<h2>Overview</h2> +<p>In theory, modules provide input and output, among other functions, in +rsyslog. In practice, modules are only utilized for output in the current +release. The module interface is not yet completed and a moving target. We do +not recommend to write a module based on the current specification. If you do, +please be prepared that future released of rsyslog will probably break your +module. </p> +<p>A goal of modularization is to provide an easy to use plug-in interface. +However, this goal is not yet reached and all modules must be statically linked.</p> +<h2>Module Security</h2> +<p>Modules are directly loaded into rsyslog's address space. As such, any module +is provided a big level of trust. Please note that further module interfaces +might provide a way to load a module into an isolated address space. This, +however, is far from being completed. So the number one rule about module +security is to run only code that you know you can trust.</p> +<h2>Copyright</h2> +<p>Copyright (c) 2007 +<a href="http://www.adiscon.com/en/people/rainer-gerhards.php">Rainer Gerhards</a> +and <a href="http://www.adiscon.com/en/">Adiscon</a>.</p> +<p>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under +the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later +version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, +no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license can be +viewed at <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"> +http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html</a>.</p> +</body> +</html>
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