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@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ appear as implementation progresses.
many parameter settings modify queue parameters. If in doubt, use the
default, it is usually well-chosen and applicable in most cases.</p>
<ul>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_abortonuncleanconfig.html">$AbortOnUncleanConfig</a> - abort startup if there is
+any issue with the config file</li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_actionexeconlywhenpreviousissuspended.html">$ActionExecOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended</a></li>
<li>$ActionName &lt;a_single_word&gt; - used primarily for documentation, e.g. when
generating a configuration graph. Available sice 4.3.1.
@@ -58,6 +60,7 @@ default template for UDP and plain TCP forwarding action</li>
<li>$ActionGSSForwardDefaultTemplate [templateName] - sets a
new default template for GSS-API forwarding action</li>
<li>$ActionQueueCheckpointInterval &lt;number&gt;</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueDequeueBatchSize &lt;number&gt; [default 16]</li>
<li>$ActionQueueDequeueSlowdown &lt;number&gt; [number
is timeout in <i> micro</i>seconds (1000000us is 1sec!),
default 0 (no delay). Simple rate-limiting!]</li>
@@ -90,7 +93,7 @@ default 60000 (1 minute)]</li>
<li>$ActionQueueWorkerThreadMinumumMessages &lt;number&gt;, default 100</li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_actionresumeinterval.html">$ActionResumeInterval</a></li>
<li>$ActionResumeRetryCount &lt;number&gt; [default 0, -1 means eternal]</li>
-<li>$ActionSendResendLastMsgOnReconn &lt;[on/<b>off</b>]&gt; specifies if the last message is to be resend when a connecition broken and has been reconnedcted. May increase reliability, but comes at the risk of message duplication.
+<li>$ActionSendResendLastMsgOnReconnect &lt;[on/<b>off</b>]&gt; specifies if the last message is to be resend when a connecition breaks and has been reconnected. May increase reliability, but comes at the risk of message duplication.
<li>$ActionSendStreamDriver &lt;driver basename&gt; just like $DefaultNetstreamDriver, but for the specific action</li>
<li>$ActionSendStreamDriverMode &lt;mode&gt;, default 0, mode to use with the stream driver (driver-specific)</li>
<li>$ActionSendStreamDriverAuthMode &lt;mode&gt;,&nbsp; authentication mode to use with the stream driver. Note that this directive requires TLS
@@ -109,6 +112,14 @@ that it should be not be much more often than once per second).</li>
<li><b>$ActionSendUDPRebindInterval</b> nbr</a>- [available since 4.3.2] - instructs the UDP send
action to rebind the send socket every nbr of messages sent. Zero, the default, means
that no rebind is done. This directive is useful for use with load-balancers.</li>
+<li><b>$ActionWriteAllMarkMessages</b> [on/<b>off</b>]- [available since 5.1.5] - normally, mark messages
+are written to actions only if the action was not recently executed (by default, recently means within the
+past 20 minutes). If this setting is switched to &quot;on&quot;, mark messages are always sent to actions,
+no matter how recently they have been executed. In this mode, mark messages can be used as a kind of
+heartbeat. Note that this option auto-resets to &quot;off&quot;, so if you intend to use it with multiple
+actions, it must be specified in front off <b>all</b> selector lines that should provide this
+functionality.
+</li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_allowedsender.html">$AllowedSender</a></li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_controlcharacterescapeprefix.html">$ControlCharacterEscapePrefix</a></li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_debugprintcfsyslinehandlerlist.html">$DebugPrintCFSyslineHandlerList</a></li>
@@ -129,7 +140,9 @@ our paper on <a href="multi_ruleset.html">using multiple rule sets in rsyslog</a
<li><a href="rsconf1_dropmsgswithmaliciousdnsptrrecords.html">$DropMsgsWithMaliciousDnsPTRRecords</a></li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_droptrailinglfonreception.html">$DropTrailingLFOnReception</a></li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_dynafilecachesize.html">$DynaFileCacheSize</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_escape8bitcharsonreceive.html">$Escape8BitCharactersOnReceive</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">$FileCreateMode</a></li>
@@ -149,6 +162,18 @@ Usually that should not be a big issue, as the restart-type HUP can easily be re
something along the lines of &quot;/etc/init.d/rsyslog restart&quot;.
</li>
<li><a href="rsconf1_includeconfig.html">$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.
+[available since 4.7.0 and 5.3.0]
+<li><b>$MainMsgQueueDequeueBatchSize</b> &lt;number&gt; [default 32]</li>
<li>$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 +254,7 @@ 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
@@ -239,10 +265,14 @@ large enough for the whole message. (Introduced with 4.1.5). Once set, it affect
<li><a href="rsconf1_resetconfigvariables.html">$ResetConfigVariables</a></li>
<li><b>$Ruleset</b> <i>name</i> - starts a new ruleset or switches back to one already defined.
All following actions belong to that new rule set.
-the <i>name</i> does not yet exist, it is created. To swith back to rsyslog's
+the <i>name</i> does not yet exist, it is created. To switch back to rsyslog's
default ruleset, specify &quot;RSYSLOG_DefaultRuleset&quot;) as the name.
All following actions belong to that new rule set. It is advised to also read
our paper on <a href="multi_ruleset.html">using multiple rule sets in rsyslog</a>.</li>
+<li><b><a href="rsconf1_rulesetcreatemainqueue.html">$RulesetCreateMainQueue</a></b> on - creates
+a ruleset-specific main queue.
+<li><b><a href="rsconf1_rulesetparser.html">$RulesetParser</a></b> - enables to set
+a specific (list of) message parsers to be used with the ruleset.
<li><b>$OptimizeForUniprocessor</b> [on/<b>off</b>] - turns on optimizatons which lead to better
performance on uniprocessors. If you run on multicore-machiens, turning this off lessens CPU load. The
default may change as uniprocessor systems become less common. [available since 4.1.0]</li>
@@ -268,6 +298,9 @@ the value, the less precise the timestamp.
<li><a href="droppriv.html">$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 +319,7 @@ 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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