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@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ our paper on <a href="multi_ruleset.html">using multiple rule sets in rsyslog</a
<li><a href="rsconf1_droptrailinglfonreception.html">$DropTrailingLFOnReception</a></li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_dynafilecachesize.html">$DynaFileCacheSize</a></li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_escapecontrolcharactersonreceive.html">$EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive</a></li>
+<li><b>$EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive</b> [<b>on</b>|off] - escape USASCII HT character</li>
<li>$ErrorMessagesToStderr [<b>on</b>|off] - direct rsyslogd error message to stderr (in addition to other targets)</li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_failonchownfailure.html">$FailOnChownFailure</a></li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_filecreatemode.html">$FileCreateMode</a></li>
@@ -149,6 +150,16 @@ Usually that should not be a big issue, as the restart-type HUP can easily be re
something along the lines of &quot;/etc/init.d/rsyslog restart&quot;.
</li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_includeconfig.html">$IncludeConfig</a></li><li>MainMsgQueueCheckpointInterval &lt;number&gt;</li>
+<li><b>$LocalHostName</b> [name] - this directive permits to overwrite the system
+hostname with the one specified in the directive. If the directive is given
+multiple times, all but the last one will be ignored. Please note that startup
+error messages may be issued with the real hostname. This is by design and not
+a bug (but one may argue if the design should be changed ;)). Available since
+4.7.4+, 5.7.3+, 6.1.3+.
+<li><b>$LogRSyslogStatusMessages</b> [<b>on</b>/off] - If set to on (the default),
+rsyslog emits message on startup and shutdown as well as when it is HUPed.
+This information might be needed by some log analyzers. If set to off, no such
+status messages are logged, what may be useful for other scenarios.
<li>$MainMsgQueueDequeueSlowdown &lt;number&gt; [number
is timeout in <i> micro</i>seconds (1000000us is 1sec!),
default 0 (no delay). Simple rate-limiting!]</li>
@@ -229,6 +240,7 @@ error recovery thus can handle write errors without data loss. Note that this op
severely reduces the effect of zip compression and should be switched to off
for that use case. Note that the default -on- is primarily an aid to preserve
the traditional syslogd behaviour.</li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_omfileforcechown.html">$omfileForceChown</a> - force ownership change for all files</li>
<li><b>$RepeatedMsgContainsOriginalMsg</b> [on/<b>off</b>] - "last message repeated n times" messages, if generated,
have a different format that contains the message that is being repeated.
Note that only the first "n" characters are included, with n to be at least 80 characters, most
@@ -268,6 +280,9 @@ the value, the less precise the timestamp.
<li><a href="droppriv.html">$PrivDropToGroupID</a></li>
<li><a href="droppriv.html">$PrivDropToUser</a></li>
<li><a href="droppriv.html">$PrivDropToUserID</a></li>
+<li><b>$Sleep</b> &lt;seconds&gt; - puts the rsyslog main thread to sleep for the specified
+number of seconds immediately when the directive is encountered. You should have a
+good reason for using this directive!</li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_umask.html">$UMASK</a></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Where &lt;size_nbr&gt; is specified above,</b>
@@ -286,7 +301,7 @@ point of view, "1,,0.0.,.,0" also has the value 1000. </p>
[<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog site</a>]</p>
<p><font size="2">This documentation is part of the
<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">rsyslog</a> project.<br>
-Copyright &copy; 2008, 2009 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and
+Copyright &copy; 2008-2010 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>
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