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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<html><head><title>Actions - rsyslog.conf</title></head>
+<body>
+<p>This is a part of the rsyslog.conf documentation.</p>
+<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">back</a>
+<h2>Actions</h2>
+<p>The action field of a rule describes what to do with the
+message. In general, message content is written to a kind of "logfile".
+But also other actions might be done, like writing to a database table
+or forwarding to another host.<br>
+<br>
+Templates can be used with all actions. If used, the specified template
+is used to generate the message content (instead of the default
+template). To specify a template, write a semicolon after the action
+value immediately followed by the template name.<br>
+<br>
+Beware: templates MUST be defined BEFORE they are used. It is OK to
+define some templates, then use them in selector lines, define more
+templates and use use them in the following selector lines. But it is
+NOT permitted to use a template in a selector line that is above its
+definition. If you do this, the action will be ignored.</p>
+<p><b>You can have multiple actions for a single selector </b>&nbsp;(or
+more precisely a single filter of such a selector line). Each action
+must be on its own line and the line must start with an ampersand
+('&amp;') character and have no filters. An example would be</p>
+<p><code><b>*.=crit rger<br>
+&amp; root<br>
+&amp; /var/log/critmsgs</b></code></p>
+<p>These three lines send critical messages to the user rger and
+root and also store them in /var/log/critmsgs. <b>Using multiple
+actions per selector is</b> convenient and also <b>offers
+a performance benefit</b>. As the filter needs to be evaluated
+only once, there is less computation required to process the directive
+compared to the otherwise-equal config directives below:</p>
+<p><code><b>*.=crit rger<br>
+*.=crit root<br>
+*.=crit /var/log/critmsgs</b></code></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>Regular File</h3>
+<p>Typically messages are logged to real files. The file has to
+be specified with full pathname, beginning with a slash "/''.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+You may prefix each entry with the minus "-'' sign to omit syncing the
+file after every logging. Note that you might lose information if the
+system crashes right behind a write attempt. Nevertheless this might
+give you back some performance, especially if you run programs that use
+logging in a very verbose manner.</p>
+<p>If your system is connected to a reliable UPS and you receive
+lots of log data (e.g. firewall logs), it might be a very good idea to
+turn of
+syncing by specifying the "-" in front of the file name. </p>
+<p><b>The filename can be either static </b>(always
+the same) or <b>dynamic</b> (different based on message
+received). The later is useful if you would automatically split
+messages into different files based on some message criteria. For
+example, dynamic file name selectors allow you to split messages into
+different files based on the host that sent them. With dynamic file
+names, everything is automatic and you do not need any filters. </p>
+<p>It works via the template system. First, you define a template
+for the file name. An example can be seen above in the description of
+template. We will use the "DynFile" template defined there. Dynamic
+filenames are indicated by specifying a questions mark "?" instead of a
+slash, followed by the template name. Thus, the selector line for our
+dynamic file name would look as follows:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<code>*.* ?DynFile</code>
+</blockquote>
+<p>That's all you need to do. Rsyslog will now automatically
+generate file names for you and store the right messages into the right
+files. Please note that the minus sign also works with dynamic file
+name selectors. Thus, to avoid syncing, you may use</p>
+<blockquote>
+<code>*.* -?DynFile</code></blockquote>
+<p>And of course you can use templates to specify the output
+format:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<code>*.* ?DynFile;MyTemplate</code></blockquote>
+<p><b>A word of caution:</b> rsyslog creates files as
+needed. So if a new host is using your syslog server, rsyslog will
+automatically create a new file for it.</p>
+<p><b>Creating directories is also supported</b>. For
+example you can use the hostname as directory and the program name as
+file name:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<code>$template DynFile,"/var/log/%HOSTNAME%/%programname%.log"</code></blockquote>
+<h3>Named Pipes</h3>
+<p>This version of rsyslogd(8) has support for logging output to
+named pipes (fifos). A fifo or named pipe can be used as a destination
+for log messages by prepending a pipe symbol ("|'') to the name of the
+file. This is handy for debugging. Note that the fifo must be created
+with the mkfifo(1) command before rsyslogd(8) is started.</p>
+<h3>Terminal and Console</h3>
+<p>If the file you specified is a tty, special tty-handling is
+done, same with /dev/console.</p>
+<h3>Remote Machine</h3>
+<p>Rsyslogd provides full remote logging, i.e. is able to send
+messages to a remote host running rsyslogd(8) and to receive messages
+from remote hosts. Using this feature you're able to control all syslog
+messages on one host, if all other machines will log remotely to that.
+This tears down<br>
+administration needs.<br>
+<br>
+<b>Please note that this version of rsyslogd by default does NOT
+forward messages it has received from the network to another host.
+Specify the "-h" option to enable this.</b></p>
+<p>To forward messages to another host, prepend the hostname with
+the at sign ("@"). A single at sign means that messages will
+be forwarded via UDP protocol (the standard for syslog). If you prepend
+two at signs ("@@"), the messages will be transmitted via TCP. Please
+note that plain TCP based syslog is not officially standardized, but
+most major syslogds support it (e.g. syslog-ng or WinSyslog). The
+forwarding action indicator (at-sign) can be followed by one or more
+options. If they are given, they must be immediately (without a space)
+following the final at sign and be enclosed in parenthesis. The
+individual options must be separated by commas. The following options
+are right now defined:</p>
+<table id="table2" border="1" width="100%">
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p align="center"><b>z&lt;number&gt;</b></p>
+</td>
+<td>Enable zlib-compression for the message. The
+&lt;number&gt; is the compression level. It can be 1 (lowest
+gain, lowest CPU overhead) to 9 (maximum compression, highest CPU
+overhead). The level can also be 0, which means "no compression". If
+given, the "z" option is ignored. So this does not make an awful lot of
+sense. There is hardly a difference between level 1 and 9 for typical
+syslog messages. You can expect a compression gain between 0% and 30%
+for typical messages. Very chatty messages may compress up to 50%, but
+this is seldom seen with typically traffic. Please note that rsyslogd
+checks the compression gain. Messages with 60 bytes or less will never
+be compressed. This is because compression gain is pretty unlikely and
+we prefer to save CPU cycles. Messages over that size are always
+compressed. However, it is checked if there is a gain in compression
+and only if there is, the compressed message is transmitted. Otherwise,
+the uncompressed messages is transmitted. This saves the receiver CPU
+cycles for decompression. It also prevents small message to actually
+become larger in compressed form.
+<p><b>Please note that when a TCP transport is used,
+compression will also turn on syslog-transport-tls framing. See the "o"
+option for important information on the implications.</b></p>
+<p>Compressed messages are automatically detected and
+decompressed by the receiver. There is nothing that needs to be
+configured on the receiver side.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p align="center"><b>o</b></p>
+</td>
+<td><b>This option is experimental. Use at your own
+risk and only if you know why you need it! If in doubt, do NOT turn it
+on.</b>
+<p>This option is only valid for plain TCP based
+transports. It selects a different framing based on IETF internet draft
+syslog-transport-tls-06. This framing offers some benefits over
+traditional LF-based framing. However, the standardization effort is
+not yet complete. There may be changes in upcoming versions of this
+standard. Rsyslog will be kept in line with the standard. There is some
+chance that upcoming changes will be incompatible to the current
+specification. In this case, all systems using -transport-tls framing
+must be upgraded. There will be no effort made to retain compatibility
+between different versions of rsyslog. The primary reason for that is
+that it seems technically impossible to provide compatibility between
+some of those changes. So you should take this note very serious. It is
+not something we do not *like* to do (and may change our mind if enough
+people beg...), it is something we most probably *can not* do for
+technical reasons (aka: you can beg as much as you like, it won't
+change anything...).</p>
+<p>The most important implication is that compressed syslog
+messages via TCP must be considered with care. Unfortunately, it is
+technically impossible to transfer compressed records over traditional
+syslog plain tcp transports, so you are left with two evil choices...</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p><br>
+The hostname may be followed by a colon and the destination port.</p>
+<p>The following is an example selector line with forwarding:</p>
+<p>*.*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; @@(o,z9)192.168.0.1:1470</p>
+<p>In this example, messages are forwarded via plain TCP with
+experimental framing and maximum compression to the host 192.168.0.1 at
+port 1470.</p>
+<p>*.* @192.168.0.1</p>
+<p>In the example above, messages are forwarded via UDP to the
+machine 192.168.0.1, the destination port defaults to 514. Messages
+will not be compressed.</p>
+<p>Note that IPv6 addresses contain colons. So if an IPv6 address is specified
+in the hostname part, rsyslogd could not detect where the IP address ends
+and where the port starts. There is a syntax extension to support this:
+put squary brackets around the address (e.g. "[2001::1]"). Square
+brackets also work with real host names and IPv4 addresses, too.
+<p>A valid sample to send messages to the IPv6 host 2001::1 at port 515
+is as follows:
+<p>*.* @[2001::1]:515
+<p>This works with TCP, too.
+<p><b>Note to sysklogd users:</b> sysklogd does <b>not</b>
+support RFC 3164 format, which is the default forwarding template in
+rsyslog. As such, you will experience duplicate hostnames if rsyslog is
+the sender and sysklogd is the receiver. The fix is simple: you need to
+use a different template. Use that one:</p>
+<p class="MsoPlainText">$template
+sysklogd,"&lt;%PRI%&gt;%TIMESTAMP% %syslogtag%%msg%\""<br>
+*.* @192.168.0.1;sysklogd</p>
+<h3>List of Users</h3>
+<p>Usually critical messages are also directed to "root'' on
+that machine. You can specify a list of users that shall get the
+message by simply writing the login. You may specify more than one user
+by separating them with commas (",''). If they're logged in they get
+the message. Don't think a mail would be sent, that might be too late.</p>
+<h3>Everyone logged on</h3>
+<p>Emergency messages often go to all users currently online to
+notify them that something strange is happening with the system. To
+specify this wall(1)-feature use an asterisk ("*'').</p>
+<h3>Call Plugin</h3>
+<p>This is a generic way to call an output plugin. The plugin
+must support this functionality. Actual parameters depend on the
+module, so see the module's doc on what to supply. The general syntax
+is as follows:</p>
+<p>:modname:params;template</p>
+<p>Currently, the ommysql database output module supports this
+syntax (in addtion to the "&gt;" syntax it traditionally
+supported). For ommysql, the module name is "ommysql" and the params
+are the traditional ones. The ;template part is not module specific, it
+is generic rsyslog functionality available to all modules.</p>
+<p>As an example, the ommysql module may be called as follows:</p>
+<p>:ommysql:dbhost,dbname,dbuser,dbpassword;dbtemplate</p>
+<p>For details, please see the "Database Table" section of this
+documentation.</p>
+<p>Note: as of this writing, the ":modname:" part is hardcoded
+into the module. So the name to use is not necessarily the name the
+module's plugin file is called.</p>
+<h3>Database Table</h3>
+<p>This allows logging of the message to a database table.
+Currently, only MySQL databases are supported. However, other database
+drivers will most probably be developed as plugins. By default, a <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/">MonitorWare</a>-compatible
+schema is required for this to work. You can create that schema with
+the createDB.SQL file that came with the rsyslog package. You can also<br>
+use any other schema of your liking - you just need to define a proper
+template and assign this template to the action.<br>
+<br>
+The database writer is called by specifying a greater-then sign
+("&gt;") in front of the database connect information. Immediately
+after that<br>
+sign the database host name must be given, a comma, the database name,
+another comma, the database user, a comma and then the user's password.
+If a specific template is to be used, a semicolon followed by the
+template name can follow the connect information. This is as follows:<br>
+<br>
+&gt;dbhost,dbname,dbuser,dbpassword;dbtemplate</p>
+<p><b>Important: to use the database functionality, the
+MySQL output module must be loaded in the config file</b> BEFORE
+the first database table action is used. This is done by placing the</p>
+<p><code><b>$ModLoad ommysql</b></code></p>
+<p>directive some place above the first use of the database write
+(we recommend doing at the the beginning of the config file).</p>
+<h3>Discard</h3>
+<p>If the discard action is carried out, the received message is
+immediately discarded. No further processing of it occurs. Discard has
+primarily been added to filter out messages before carrying on any
+further processing. For obvious reasons, the results of "discard" are
+depending on where in the configuration file it is being used. Please
+note that once a message has been discarded there is no way to retrieve
+it in later configuration file lines.</p>
+<p>Discard can be highly effective if you want to filter out some
+annoying messages that otherwise would fill your log files. To do that,
+place the discard actions early in your log files. This often plays
+well with property-based filters, giving you great freedom in
+specifying what you do not want.</p>
+<p>Discard is just the single tilde character with no further
+parameters:</p>
+<p>~</p>
+<p>For example,</p>
+<p>*.*&nbsp;&nbsp; ~</p>
+<p>discards everything (ok, you can achive the same by not
+running rsyslogd at all...).</p>
+<h3>Output Channel</h3>
+<p>Binds an output channel definition (see there for details) to
+this action. Output channel actions must start with a $-sign, e.g. if
+you would like to bind your output channel definition "mychannel" to
+the action, use "$mychannel". Output channels support template
+definitions like all all other actions.</p>
+<h3>Shell Execute</h3>
+<p>This executes a program in a subshell. The program is passed
+the template-generated message as the only command line parameter.
+Rsyslog waits until the program terminates and only then continues to
+run.</p>
+<p>^program-to-execute;template</p>
+<p>The program-to-execute can be any valid executable. It
+receives the template string as a single parameter (argv[1]).</p>
+<p><b>WARNING:</b> The Shell Execute action was added
+to serve an urgent need. While it is considered reasonable save when
+used with some thinking, its implications must be considered. The
+current implementation uses a system() call to execute the command.
+This is not the best way to do it (and will hopefully changed in
+further releases). Also, proper escaping of special characters is done
+to prevent command injection. However, attackers always find smart ways
+to circumvent escaping, so we can not say if the escaping applied will
+really safe you from all hassles. Lastly, rsyslog will wait until the
+shell command terminates. Thus, a program error in it (e.g. an infinite
+loop) can actually disable rsyslog. Even without that, during the
+programs run-time no messages are processed by rsyslog. As the IP
+stacks buffers are quickly overflowed, this bears an increased risk of
+message loss. You must be aware of these implications. Even though they
+are severe, there are several cases where the "shell execute" action is
+very useful. This is the reason why we have included it in its current
+form. To mitigate its risks, always a) test your program thoroughly, b)
+make sure its runtime is as short as possible (if it requires a longer
+run-time, you might want to spawn your own sub-shell asynchronously),
+c) apply proper firewalling so that only known senders can send syslog
+messages to rsyslog. Point c) is especially important: if rsyslog is
+accepting message from any hosts, chances are much higher that an
+attacker might try to exploit the "shell execute" action.</p>
+<h3>Template Name</h3>
+<p>Every ACTION can be followed by a template name. If so, that
+template is used for message formatting. If no name is given, a
+hard-coded default template is used for the action. There can only be
+one template name for each given action. The default template is
+specific to each action. For a description of what a template is and
+what you can do with it, see "TEMPLATES" at the top of this document.</p>
+
+
+<p>[<a href="manual.html">manual index</a>]
+[<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">rsyslog.conf</a>]
+[<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 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 2 or higher.</font></p>
+</body>
+</html>
+
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<html><head><title>Examples - rsyslog.conf</title></head>
+<body>
+<p>This is a part of the rsyslog.conf documentation.</p>
+<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">back</a>
+<h2>Examples</h2>
+<p>Below are example for templates and selector lines. I hope
+they are self-explanatory. If not, please see
+www.monitorware.com/rsyslog/ for advise.</p>
+<h3>TEMPLATES</h3>
+<p>Please note that the samples are split across multiple lines.
+A template MUST NOT actually be split across multiple lines.<br>
+<br>
+A template that resembles traditional syslogd file output:<br>
+$template TraditionalFormat,"%timegenerated% %HOSTNAME%<br>
+%syslogtag%%msg:::drop-last-lf%\n"<br>
+<br>
+A template that tells you a little more about the message:<br>
+$template
+precise,"%syslogpriority%,%syslogfacility%,%timegenerated%,%HOSTNAME%,<br>
+%syslogtag%,%msg%\n"<br>
+<br>
+A template for RFC 3164 format:<br>
+$template RFC3164fmt,"&lt;%PRI%&gt;%TIMESTAMP% %HOSTNAME%
+%syslogtag%%msg%"<br>
+<br>
+A template for the format traditonally used for user messages:<br>
+$template usermsg," XXXX%syslogtag%%msg%\n\r"<br>
+<br>
+And a template with the traditonal wall-message format:<br>
+$template wallmsg,"\r\n\7Message from syslogd@%HOSTNAME% at
+%timegenerated%<br>
+<br>
+A template that can be used for the database write (please note the SQL<br>
+template option)<br>
+$template MySQLInsert,"insert iut, message, receivedat values<br>
+('%iut%', '%msg:::UPPERCASE%', '%timegenerated:::date-mysql%')<br>
+into systemevents\r\n", SQL<br>
+<br>
+The following template emulates <a href="http://www.winsyslog.com/en/">WinSyslog</a>
+format (it's an <a href="http://www.adiscon.com/en/">Adiscon</a>
+format, you do not feel bad if you don't know it ;)). It's interesting
+to see how it takes different parts out of the date stamps. What
+happens is that the date stamp is split into the actual date and time
+and the these two are combined with just a comma in between them.<br>
+<br>
+$template WinSyslogFmt,"%HOSTNAME%,%timegenerated:1:10:date-rfc3339%,<br>
+%timegenerated:12:19:date-rfc3339%,%timegenerated:1:10:date-rfc3339%,<br>
+%timegenerated:12:19:date-rfc3339%,%syslogfacility%,%syslogpriority%,<br>
+%syslogtag%%msg%\n"</p>
+<h3>SELECTOR LINES</h3>
+<p># Store critical stuff in critical<br>
+#<br>
+*.=crit;kern.none /var/adm/critical<br>
+<br>
+This will store all messages with the priority crit in the file
+/var/adm/critical, except for any kernel message.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+# Kernel messages are first, stored in the kernel<br>
+# file, critical messages and higher ones also go<br>
+# to another host and to the console. Messages to<br>
+# the host finlandia are forwarded in RFC 3164<br>
+# format (using the template defined above).<br>
+#<br>
+kern.* /var/adm/kernel<br>
+kern.crit @finlandia;RFC3164fmt<br>
+kern.crit /dev/console<br>
+kern.info;kern.!err /var/adm/kernel-info<br>
+<br>
+The first rule direct any message that has the kernel facility to the
+file /var/adm/kernel.<br>
+<br>
+The second statement directs all kernel messages of the priority crit
+and higher to the remote host finlandia. This is useful, because if the
+host crashes and the disks get irreparable errors you might not be able
+to read the stored messages. If they're on a remote host, too, you
+still can try to find out the reason for the crash.<br>
+<br>
+The third rule directs these messages to the actual console, so the
+person who works on the machine will get them, too.<br>
+<br>
+The fourth line tells rsyslogd to save all kernel messages that come
+with priorities from info up to warning in the file
+/var/adm/kernel-info. Everything from err and higher is excluded.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+# The tcp wrapper loggs with mail.info, we display<br>
+# all the connections on tty12<br>
+#<br>
+mail.=info /dev/tty12<br>
+<br>
+This directs all messages that uses mail.info (in source LOG_MAIL |
+LOG_INFO) to /dev/tty12, the 12th console. For example the tcpwrapper
+tcpd(8) uses this as it's default.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+# Store all mail concerning stuff in a file<br>
+#<br>
+mail.*;mail.!=info /var/adm/mail<br>
+<br>
+This pattern matches all messages that come with the mail facility,
+except for the info priority. These will be stored in the file
+/var/adm/mail.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+# Log all mail.info and news.info messages to info<br>
+#<br>
+mail,news.=info /var/adm/info<br>
+<br>
+This will extract all messages that come either with mail.info or with
+news.info and store them in the file /var/adm/info.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+# Log info and notice messages to messages file<br>
+#<br>
+*.=info;*.=notice;\<br>
+mail.none /var/log/messages<br>
+<br>
+This lets rsyslogd log all messages that come with either the info or
+the notice facility into the file /var/log/messages, except for all<br>
+messages that use the mail facility.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+# Log info messages to messages file<br>
+#<br>
+*.=info;\<br>
+mail,news.none /var/log/messages<br>
+<br>
+This statement causes rsyslogd to log all messages that come with the
+info priority to the file /var/log/messages. But any message coming
+either with the mail or the news facility will not be stored.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+# Emergency messages will be displayed using wall<br>
+#<br>
+*.=emerg *<br>
+<br>
+This rule tells rsyslogd to write all emergency messages to all
+currently logged in users. This is the wall action.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+# Messages of the priority alert will be directed<br>
+# to the operator<br>
+#<br>
+*.alert root,rgerhards<br>
+<br>
+This rule directs all messages with a priority of alert or higher to
+the terminals of the operator, i.e. of the users "root'' and
+"rgerhards'' if they're logged in.<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+*.* @finlandia<br>
+<br>
+This rule would redirect all messages to a remote host called
+finlandia. This is useful especially in a cluster of machines where all
+syslog messages will be stored on only one machine.<br>
+<br>
+In the format shown above, UDP is used for transmitting the message.
+The destination port is set to the default auf 514. Rsyslog is also
+capable of using much more secure and reliable TCP sessions for message
+forwarding. Also, the destination port can be specified. To select TCP,
+simply add one additional @ in front of the host name (that is, @host
+is UPD, @@host is TCP). For example:<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+*.* @@finlandia<br>
+<br>
+To specify the destination port on the remote machine, use a colon
+followed by the port number after the machine name. The following
+forwards to port 1514 on finlandia:<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+*.* @@finlandia:1514<br>
+<br>
+This syntax works both with TCP and UDP based syslog. However, you will
+probably primarily need it for TCP, as there is no well-accepted port
+for this transport (it is non-standard). For UDP, you can usually stick
+with the default auf 514, but might want to modify it for security rea-<br>
+sons. If you would like to do that, it's quite easy:<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+*.* @finlandia:1514<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+*.* &gt;dbhost,dbname,dbuser,dbpassword;dbtemplate<br>
+<br>
+This rule writes all message to the database "dbname" hosted on
+"dbhost". The login is done with user "dbuser" and password
+"dbpassword". The actual table that is updated is specified within the
+template (which contains the insert statement). The template is called
+"dbtemplate" in this case.</p>
+<p>:msg,contains,"error" @errorServer</p>
+<p>This rule forwards all messages that contain the word "error"
+in the msg part to the server "errorServer". Forwarding is via UDP.
+Please note the colon in fron</p>
+
+<p>[<a href="manual.html">manual index</a>]
+[<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">rsyslog.conf</a>]
+[<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 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 2 or higher.</font></p>
+</body>
+</html>
+
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<html><head><title>Filter Conditions - rsyslog.conf</title></head>
+<body>
+<p>This is a part of the rsyslog.conf documentation.</p>
+<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">back</a>
+<h2>Filter Conditions</h2>
+<p>Rsyslog offers four different types "filter conditions":</p>
+<ul>
+<li>BSD-style blocks</li>
+<li>"traditional" severity and facility based selectors</li>
+<li>property-based filters</li>
+<li>expression-based filters</li>
+</ul>
+<h3>Blocks</h3>
+<p>Rsyslogd supports BSD-style blocks inside rsyslog.conf. Each
+block of lines is separated from the previous block by a program or
+hostname specification. A block will only log messages corresponding to
+the most recent program and hostname specifications given. Thus, a
+block which selects &#8216;ppp&#8217; as the program, directly followed by a block
+that selects messages from the hostname &#8216;dialhost&#8217;, then the second
+block will only log messages from the ppp program on dialhost.
+</p>
+<p>A program specification is a line beginning with &#8216;!prog&#8217; and
+the following blocks will be associated with calls to syslog from that
+specific program. A program specification for &#8216;foo&#8217; will also match any
+message logged by the kernel with the prefix &#8216;foo: &#8217;. Alternatively, a
+program specification &#8216;-foo&#8217; causes the following blocks to be applied
+to messages from any program but the one specified. A hostname
+specification of the form &#8216;+hostname&#8217; and the following blocks will be
+applied to messages received from the specified hostname.
+Alternatively, a hostname specification &#8216;-hostname&#8217; causes the
+following blocks to be applied to messages from any host but the one
+specified. If the hostname is given as &#8216;@&#8217;, the local hostname will be
+used. (NOT YET IMPLEMENTED) A program or hostname specification may be
+reset by giving the program or hostname as &#8216;*&#8217;.</p>
+<p>Please note that the "#!prog", "#+hostname" and "#-hostname"
+syntax available in BSD syslogd is not supported by rsyslogd. By
+default, no hostname or program is set.</p>
+<h3>Selectors</h3>
+<p><b>Selectors are the traditional way of filtering syslog
+messages.</b> They have been kept in rsyslog with their original
+syntax, because it is well-known, highly effective and also needed for
+compatibility with stock syslogd configuration files. If you just need
+to filter based on priority and facility, you should do this with
+selector lines. They are <b>not</b> second-class citizens
+in rsyslog and offer the best performance for this job.</p>
+<p>The selector field itself again consists of two parts, a
+facility and a priority, separated by a period (".''). Both parts are
+case insensitive and can also be specified as decimal numbers, but
+don't do that, you have been warned. Both facilities and priorities are
+described in rsyslog(3). The names mentioned below correspond to the
+similar LOG_-values in /usr/include/rsyslog.h.<br>
+<br>
+The facility is one of the following keywords: auth, authpriv, cron,
+daemon, kern, lpr, mail, mark, news, security (same as auth), syslog,
+user, uucp and local0 through local7. The keyword security should not
+be used anymore and mark is only for internal use and therefore should
+not be used in applications. Anyway, you may want to specify and
+redirect these messages here. The facility specifies the subsystem that
+produced the message, i.e. all mail programs log with the mail facility
+(LOG_MAIL) if they log using syslog.<br>
+<br>
+The priority is one of the following keywords, in ascending order:
+debug, info, notice, warning, warn (same as warning), err, error (same
+as err), crit, alert, emerg, panic (same as emerg). The keywords error,
+warn and panic are deprecated and should not be used anymore. The
+priority defines the severity of the message.<br>
+<br>
+The behavior of the original BSD syslogd is that all messages of the
+specified priority and higher are logged according to the given action.
+Rsyslogd behaves the same, but has some extensions.<br>
+<br>
+In addition to the above mentioned names the rsyslogd(8) understands
+the following extensions: An asterisk ("*'') stands for all facilities
+or all priorities, depending on where it is used (before or after the
+period). The keyword none stands for no priority of the given facility.<br>
+<br>
+You can specify multiple facilities with the same priority pattern in
+one statement using the comma (",'') operator. You may specify as much
+facilities as you want. Remember that only the facility part from such
+a statement is taken, a priority part would be skipped.</p>
+<p>Multiple selectors may be specified for a single action using
+the semicolon (";'') separator. Remember that each selector in the
+selector field is capable to overwrite the preceding ones. Using this
+behavior you can exclude some priorities from the pattern.</p>
+<p>Rsyslogd has a syntax extension to the original BSD source,
+that makes its use more intuitively. You may precede every priority
+with an equation sign ("='') to specify only this single priority and
+not any of the above. You may also (both is valid, too) precede the
+priority with an exclamation mark ("!'') to ignore all that
+priorities, either exact this one or this and any higher priority. If
+you use both extensions than the exclamation mark must occur before the
+equation sign, just use it intuitively.</p>
+<h3>Property-Based Filters</h3>
+<p>Property-based filters are unique to rsyslogd. They allow to
+filter on any property, like HOSTNAME, syslogtag and msg. A list of all
+currently-supported properties can be found in the <a href="property_replacer.html">property replacer documentation</a>
+(but keep in mind that only the properties, not the replacer is
+supported). With this filter, each properties can be checked against a
+specified value, using a specified compare operation. Currently, there
+is only a single compare operation (contains) available, but additional
+operations will be added in the future.</p>
+<p>A property-based filter must start with a colon in column 0.
+This tells rsyslogd that it is the new filter type. The colon must be
+followed by the property name, a comma, the name of the compare
+operation to carry out, another comma and then the value to compare
+against. This value must be quoted. There can be spaces and tabs
+between the commas. Property names and compare operations are
+case-sensitive, so "msg" works, while "MSG" is an invalid property
+name. In brief, the syntax is as follows:</p>
+<p><code><b>:property, [!]compare-operation, "value"</b></code></p>
+<p>The following <b>compare-operations</b> are
+currently supported:</p>
+<table id="table1" border="1" width="100%">
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td>contains</td>
+<td>Checks if the string provided in value is contained in
+the property. There must be an exact match, wildcards are not supported.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>isequal</td>
+<td>Compares the "value" string provided and the property
+contents. These two values must be exactly equal to match. The
+difference to contains is that contains searches for the value anywhere
+inside the property value, whereas all characters must be identical for
+isequal. As such, isequal is most useful for fields like syslogtag or
+FROMHOST, where you probably know the exact contents.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>startswith</td>
+<td>Checks if the value is found exactly at the beginning
+of the property value. For example, if you search for "val" with
+<p><code><b>:msg, startswith, "val"</b></code></p>
+<p>it will be a match if msg contains "values are in this
+message" but it won't match if the msg contains "There are values in
+this message" (in the later case, contains would match). Please note
+that "startswith" is by far faster than regular expressions. So even
+once they are implemented, it can make very much sense
+(performance-wise) to use "startswith".</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>regex</td>
+<td>Compares the property against the provided POSIX
+regular
+expression.</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p>You can use the bang-character (!) immediately in front of a
+compare-operation, the outcome of this operation is negated. For
+example, if msg contains "This is an informative message", the
+following sample would not match:</p>
+<p><code><b>:msg, contains, "error"</b></code></p>
+<p>but this one matches:</p>
+<p><code><b>:msg, !contains, "error"</b></code></p>
+<p>Using negation can be useful if you would like to do some
+generic processing but exclude some specific events. You can use the
+discard action in conjunction with that. A sample would be:</p>
+<p><code><b>*.*
+/var/log/allmsgs-including-informational.log<br>
+:msg, contains, "informational"&nbsp; <font color="#ff0000" size="4">~</font>
+<br>
+*.* /var/log/allmsgs-but-informational.log</b></code></p>
+<p>Do not overlook the red tilde in line 2! In this sample, all
+messages are written to the file allmsgs-including-informational.log.
+Then, all messages containing the string "informational" are discarded.
+That means the config file lines below the "discard line" (number 2 in
+our sample) will not be applied to this message. Then, all remaining
+lines will also be written to the file allmsgs-but-informational.log.</p>
+<p><b>Value</b> is a quoted string. It supports some
+escape sequences:</p>
+<p>\" - the quote character (e.g. "String with \"Quotes\"")<br>
+\\ - the backslash character (e.g. "C:\\tmp")</p>
+<p>Escape sequences always start with a backslash. Additional
+escape sequences might be added in the future. Backslash characters <b>must</b>
+be escaped. Any other sequence then those outlined above is invalid and
+may lead to unpredictable results.</p>
+<p>Probably, "msg" is the most prominent use case of property
+based filters. It is the actual message text. If you would like to
+filter based on some message content (e.g. the presence of a specific
+code), this can be done easily by:</p>
+<p><code><b>:msg, contains, "ID-4711"</b></code></p>
+<p>This filter will match when the message contains the string
+"ID-4711". Please note that the comparison is case-sensitive, so it
+would not match if "id-4711" would be contained in the message.</p>
+<p><code><b>:msg, regex, "fatal .* error"</b></code></p>
+<p>This filter uses a POSIX regular expression. It matches when
+the
+string contains the words "fatal" and "error" with anything in between
+(e.g. "fatal net error" and "fatal lib error" but not "fatal error" as
+two spaces are required by the regular expression!).</p>
+<p>Getting property-based filters right can sometimes be
+challenging. In order to help you do it with as minimal effort as
+possible, rsyslogd spits out debug information for all property-based
+filters during their evaluation. To enable this, run rsyslogd in
+foreground and specify the "-d" option.</p>
+<p>Boolean operations inside property based filters (like
+'message contains "ID17" or message contains "ID18"') are currently not
+supported (except for "not" as outlined above). Please note that while
+it is possible to query facility and severity via property-based
+filters, it is far more advisable to use classic selectors (see above)
+for those cases.</p>
+<h3>Expression-Based Filters</h3>
+Expression based filters allow
+filtering on arbitrary complex expressions, which can include boolean,
+arithmetic and string operations. Expression filters will evolve into a
+full configuration scripting language. Unfortunately, their syntax will
+slightly change during that process. So if you use them now, you need
+to be prepared to change your configuration files some time later.
+However, we try to implement the scripting facility as soon as possible
+(also in respect to stage work needed). So the window of exposure is
+probably not too long.<br>
+<br>
+Expression based filters are indicated by the keyword "if" in column 1
+of a new line. They have this format:<br>
+<br>
+if expr then action-part-of-selector-line<br>
+<br>
+"If" and "then" are fixed keywords that mus be present. "expr" is a
+(potentially quite complex) expression. So the <a href="expression.html">expression documentation</a> for
+details. "action-part-of-selector-line" is an action, just as you know
+it (e.g. "/var/log/logfile" to write to that file).<br>
+<br>
+A few quick samples:<br>
+<br>
+<code>
+*.* /var/log/file1 # the traditional way<br>
+if $msg contains 'error' /var/log/errlog # the expression-based way<br>
+</code>
+<br>
+Right now, you need to specify numerical values if you would like to
+check for facilities and severity. These can be found in <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.txt">RFC 3164</a>.
+If you don't like that, you can of course also use the textual property
+- just be sure to use the right one. As expression support is enhanced,
+this will change. For example, if you would like to filter on message
+that have facility local0, start with "DEVNAME" and have either
+"error1" or "error0" in their message content, you could use the
+following filter:<br>
+<br>
+<code>
+if $syslogfacility-text == 'local0' and $msg
+startswith 'DEVNAME' and ($msg contains 'error1' or $msg contains
+'error0') then /var/log/somelog<br>
+</code>
+<br>
+Please note that the above <span style="font-weight: bold;">must
+all be on one line</span>! And if you would like to store all
+messages except those that contain "error1" or "error0", you just need
+to add a "not":<br>
+<br>
+<code>
+if $syslogfacility-text == 'local0' and $msg
+startswith 'DEVNAME' and <span style="font-weight: bold;">not</span>
+($msg contains 'error1' or $msg contains
+'error0') then /var/log/somelog<br>
+</code>
+<br>
+If you would like to do case-insensitive comparisons, use
+"contains_i" instead of "contains" and "startswith_i" instead of
+"startswith".<br>
+<br>
+Note that regular expressions are currently NOT
+supported in expression-based filters. These will be added later when
+function support is added to the expression engine (the reason is that
+regular expressions will be a separate loadable module, which requires
+some more prequisites before it can be implemented).<br>
+
+<p>[<a href="manual.html">manual index</a>]
+[<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">rsyslog.conf</a>]
+[<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 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 2 or higher.</font></p>
+</body>
+</html>
+
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<html><head><title>Global Directives - rsyslog.conf</title></head>
+<body>
+<p>This is a part of the rsyslog.conf documentation.</p>
+<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">back</a>
+<h2>Global Directives</h2>
+<p>All global directives need to be specified on a line by their
+own and must start with a dollar-sign. Here is a list in alphabetical
+order. Follow links for a description.</p>
+<p>Please note that not all directives here are actually global. Some affect
+only the next action. This documentation will be changed soon.
+<p>Not all directives have an in-depth description right now.
+Default values for them are in bold. A more in-depth description will
+appear as implementation progresses.
+</p>
+<p><b>Be sure to read information about <a href="queues.html">queues in rsyslog</a></b> -
+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_actionexeconlywhenpreviousissuspended.html">$ActionExecOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended</a></li>
+<li>$ActionExecOnlyOnceEveryInterval &lt;seconds&gt; -
+execute action only if the last execute is at last
+&lt;seconds&gt; seconds in the past (more info in <a href="ommail.html">ommail</a>,
+but may be used with any action)</li>
+<li><i><b>$ActionExecOnlyEveryNthTime</b> &lt;number&gt;</i> - If configured, the next action will
+only be executed every n-th time. For example, if configured to 3, the first two messages
+that go into the action will be dropped, the 3rd will actually cause the action to execute,
+the 4th and 5th will be dropped, the 6th executed under the action, ... and so on. Note:
+this setting is automatically re-set when the actual action is defined.</li>
+<li><i><b>$ActionExecOnlyEveryNthTimeTimeout</b> &lt;number-of-seconds&gt;</i> - has a meaning only if
+$ActionExecOnlyEveryNthTime is also configured for the same action. If so, the timeout
+setting specifies after which period the counting of "previous actions" expires and
+a new action count is begun. Specify 0 (the default) to disable timeouts.
+<br>
+<i>Why is this option needed?</i> Consider this case: a message comes in at, eg., 10am. That's
+count 1. Then, nothing happens for the next 10 hours. At 8pm, the next
+one occurs. That's count 2. Another 5 hours later, the next message
+occurs, bringing the total count to 3. Thus, this message now triggers
+the rule.
+<br>
+The question is if this is desired behavior? Or should the rule only be
+triggered if the messages occur within an e.g. 20 minute window? If the
+later is the case, you need a
+<br>
+$ActionExecOnlyEveryNthTimeTimeout 1200
+<br>
+This directive will timeout previous messages seen if they are older
+than 20 minutes. In the example above, the count would now be always 1
+and consequently no rule would ever be triggered.
+
+<li>$ActionFileDefaultTemplate [templateName] - sets a new default template for file actions</li>
+<li>$ActionFileEnableSync [on/<span style="font-weight: bold;">off</span>] - enables file
+syncing capability of omfile</li>
+<li>$ActionForwardDefaultTemplate [templateName] - sets a new
+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>$ActionQueueDequeueSlowdown &lt;number&gt; [number
+is timeout in <i> micro</i>seconds (1000000us is 1sec!),
+default 0 (no delay). Simple rate-limiting!]</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueDiscardMark &lt;number&gt; [default
+9750]</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueDiscardSeverity &lt;number&gt;
+[*numerical* severity! default 4 (warning)]</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueFileName &lt;name&gt;</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueHighWaterMark &lt;number&gt; [default
+8000]</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueImmediateShutdown [on/<b>off</b>]</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueSize &lt;number&gt;</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueLowWaterMark &lt;number&gt; [default
+2000]</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueMaxFileSize &lt;size_nbr&gt;, default 1m</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueTimeoutActionCompletion &lt;number&gt;
+[number is timeout in ms (1000ms is 1sec!), default 1000, 0 means
+immediate!]</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueTimeoutEnqueue &lt;number&gt; [number
+is timeout in ms (1000ms is 1sec!), default 2000, 0 means indefinite]</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueTimeoutShutdown &lt;number&gt; [number
+is timeout in ms (1000ms is 1sec!), default 0 (indefinite)]</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueWorkerTimeoutThreadShutdown
+&lt;number&gt; [number is timeout in ms (1000ms is 1sec!),
+default 60000 (1 minute)]</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueType [FixedArray/LinkedList/<b>Direct</b>/Disk]</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown&nbsp; [on/<b>off</b>]
+</li>
+<li>$ActionQueueWorkerThreads &lt;number&gt;, num worker threads, default 1, recommended 1</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>$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>$ActionSendStreamDriverAuthMode &lt;mode&gt;,&nbsp; authentication mode to use with the stream driver
+(driver-specific)</li><li>$ActionSendStreamDriverPermittedPeer &lt;ID&gt;,&nbsp; accepted fingerprint (SHA1) or name of remote peer
+(driver-specific) -<span style="font-weight: bold;"> directive may go away</span>!</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">$DebugPrintCFSyslineHandlerList</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="rsconf1_debugprintmodulelist.html">$DebugPrintModuleList</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_debugprinttemplatelist.html">$DebugPrintTemplateList</a></li>
+<li>$DefaultNetstreamDriver &lt;drivername&gt;, the default <a href="netstream.html">network stream driver</a> to use. Defaults to&nbsp;ptcp.$DefaultNetstreamDriverCAFile &lt;/path/to/cafile.pem&gt;</li>
+<li>$DefaultNetstreamDriverCertFile &lt;/path/to/certfile.pem&gt;</li>
+<li>$DefaultNetstreamDriverKeyFile &lt;/path/to/keyfile.pem&gt;</li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_dircreatemode.html">$DirCreateMode</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_dirgroup.html">$DirGroup</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_dirowner.html">$DirOwner</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_dropmsgswithmaliciousdnsptrrecords.html">$DropMsgsWithMaliciousDnsPTRRecords</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_droptrailinglfonreception.html">$DropTrailingLFOnReception</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_dynafilecachesize.html">$DynaFileCacheSize</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_escapecontrolcharactersonreceive.html">$EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive</a></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">$FileCreateMode</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_filegroup.html">$FileGroup</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_fileowner.html">$FileOwner</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_gssforwardservicename.html">$GssForwardServiceName</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_gsslistenservicename.html">$GssListenServiceName</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_gssmode.html">$GssMode</a></li>
+<li>$HUPisRestart [<b>on</b>/off] - if set to on, a HUP is a full daemon restart. This means any queued messages are discarded (depending
+on queue configuration, of course) all modules are unloaded and reloaded. This mode keeps compatible with sysklogd, but is
+not recommended for use with rsyslog. To do a full restart, simply stop and start the daemon. The default is "on" for
+compatibility reasons. If it is set to "off", a HUP will only close open files. This is a much quicker action and usually
+the only one that is needed e.g. for log rotation. <b>It is recommended to set the setting to "off".</b></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_includeconfig.html">$IncludeConfig</a></li><li>MainMsgQueueCheckpointInterval &lt;number&gt;</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueDequeueSlowdown &lt;number&gt; [number
+is timeout in <i> micro</i>seconds (1000000us is 1sec!),
+default 0 (no delay). Simple rate-limiting!]</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueDiscardMark &lt;number&gt; [default 9750]</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueDiscardSeverity &lt;severity&gt;
+[either a textual or numerical severity! default 4 (warning)]</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueFileName &lt;name&gt;</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueHighWaterMark &lt;number&gt; [default
+8000]</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueImmediateShutdown [on/<b>off</b>]</li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_mainmsgqueuesize.html">$MainMsgQueueSize</a></li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueLowWaterMark &lt;number&gt; [default
+2000]</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueMaxFileSize &lt;size_nbr&gt;, default
+1m</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueTimeoutActionCompletion
+&lt;number&gt; [number is timeout in ms (1000ms is 1sec!),
+default
+1000, 0 means immediate!]</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueTimeoutEnqueue &lt;number&gt; [number
+is timeout in ms (1000ms is 1sec!), default 2000, 0 means indefinite]</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueTimeoutShutdown &lt;number&gt; [number
+is timeout in ms (1000ms is 1sec!), default 0 (indefinite)]</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueWorkerTimeoutThreadShutdown
+&lt;number&gt; [number is timeout in ms (1000ms is 1sec!),
+default 60000 (1 minute)]</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueType [<b>FixedArray</b>/LinkedList/Direct/Disk]</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueSaveOnShutdown&nbsp; [on/<b>off</b>]
+</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueWorkerThreads &lt;number&gt;, num
+worker threads, default 1, recommended 1</li>
+<li>$MainMsgQueueWorkerThreadMinumumMessages &lt;number&gt;, default 100</li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_markmessageperiod.html">$MarkMessagePeriod</a> (immark)</li>
+<li><b><i>$MaxMessageSize</i></b> &lt;size_nbr&gt;, default 2k - allows to specify maximum supported message size
+(both for sending and receiving). The default
+should be sufficient for almost all cases. Do not set this below 1k, as it would cause
+interoperability problems with other syslog implementations.<br>
+Change the setting to e.g. 32768 if you would like to
+support large message sizes for IHE (32k is the current maximum
+needed for IHE). I was initially tempted to set the default to 32k,
+but there is a some memory footprint with the current
+implementation in rsyslog.
+<br>If you intend to receive Windows Event Log data (e.g. via
+<a href="http://www.eventreporter.com/">EventReporter</a>), you might want to
+increase this number to an even higher value, as event
+log messages can be very lengthy ("$MaxMessageSize 64k" is not a bad idea).
+Note: testing showed that 4k seems to be
+the typical maximum for <b>UDP</b> based syslog. This is an IP stack
+restriction. Not always ... but very often. If you go beyond
+that value, be sure to test that rsyslogd actually does what
+you think it should do ;) It is highly suggested to use a TCP based transport
+instead of UDP (plain TCP syslog, RELP). This resolves the UDP stack size restrictions.
+<br>Note that 2k, the current default, is the smallest size that must be
+supported in order to be compliant to the upcoming new syslog RFC series.
+</li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_moddir.html">$ModDir</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_modload.html">$ModLoad</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_repeatedmsgreduction.html">$RepeatedMsgReduction</a></li>
+<li><a href="rsconf1_resetconfigvariables.html">$ResetConfigVariables</a></li>
+<li><b>$OptimizeForUniprocessor</b> [on/<b>off</b>] - turns on optimizatons which lead to better
+performance on uniprocessors. If you run on multicore-machiens, turning this off lessens CPU load. The
+default may change as uniprocessor systems become less common.</li>
+<li>$WorkDirectory &lt;name&gt; (directory for spool and other work files)</li>
+<li>$UDPServerAddress &lt;IP&gt; (imudp) -- local IP
+address (or name) the UDP listens should bind to</li>
+<li>$UDPServerRun &lt;port&gt; (imudp) -- former
+-r&lt;port&gt; option, default 514, start UDP server on this
+port, "*" means all addresses</li>
+<li>$UDPServerTimeRequery &lt;nbr-of-times&gt; (imudp) -- this is a performance
+optimization. Getting the system time is very costly. With this setting, imudp can
+be instructed to obtain the precise time only once every n-times. This logic is
+only activated if messages come in at a very fast rate, so doing less frequent
+time calls should usually be acceptable. The default value is two, because we have
+seen that even without optimization the kernel often returns twice the identical time.
+You can set this value as high as you like, but do so at your own risk. The higher
+the value, the less precise the timestamp.
+<li><a href="rsconf1_umask.html">$UMASK</a></li>
+</ul>
+<p><b>Where &lt;size_nbr&gt; is specified above,</b>
+modifiers can be used after the number part. For example, 1k means
+1024. Supported are k(ilo), m(ega), g(iga), t(era), p(eta) and e(xa).
+Lower case letters refer to the traditional binary defintion (e.g. 1m
+equals 1,048,576) whereas upper case letters refer to their new
+1000-based definition (e.g 1M equals 1,000,000).</p>
+<p>Numbers may include '.' and ',' for readability. So you can
+for example specify either "1000" or "1,000" with the same result.
+Please note that rsyslogd simply ignores the punctuation. Form it's
+point of view, "1,,0.0.,.,0" also has the value 1000. </p>
+
+<p>[<a href="manual.html">manual index</a>]
+[<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">rsyslog.conf</a>]
+[<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 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 2 or higher.</font></p>
+</body>
+</html>
+
+
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<html><head><title>Modules - rsyslog.conf</title></head>
+<body>
+<p>This is a part of the rsyslog.conf documentation.</p>
+<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">back</a>
+<h2>Modules</h2>
+<p>Rsyslog has a modular design. Consequently, there is a growing
+number of modules. Here is the entry point to their documentation and
+what they do (list is currently not complete)</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="omsnmp.html">omsnmp</a> - SNMP
+trap output module</li>
+<li><a href="omrelp.html">omrelp</a> - RELP
+output module</li>
+<li>omgssapi - output module for GSS-enabled syslog</li>
+<li><a href="ommysql.html">ommysql</a> - output module for MySQL</li>
+<li>ompgsql - output module for PostgreSQL</li>
+<li><a href="omlibdbi.html">omlibdbi</a> -
+generic database output module (Firebird/Interbase, MS SQL, Sybase,
+SQLLite, Ingres, Oracle, mSQL)</li>
+<li><a href="ommail.html">ommail</a> -
+permits rsyslog to alert folks by mail if something important happens</li>
+<li><a href="imfile.html">imfile</a>
+-&nbsp; input module for text files</li>
+<li><a href="imrelp.html">imrelp</a> - RELP
+input module</li>
+<li>imudp - udp syslog message input</li>
+<li><a href="imtcp.html">imtcp</a> - input
+plugin for plain tcp syslog</li>
+<li><a href="imgssapi.html">imgssapi</a> -
+input plugin for plain tcp and GSS-enabled syslog</li>
+<li>immark - support for mark messages</li>
+<li><a href="imklog.html">imklog</a> - kernel logging</li>
+<li><a href="imuxsock.html">imuxsock</a> -
+unix sockets, including the system log socket</li>
+<li><a href="im3195.html">im3195</a> -
+accepts syslog messages via RFC 3195</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Please note that each module provides configuration
+directives, which are NOT necessarily being listed below. Also
+remember, that a modules configuration directive (and functionality) is
+only available if it has been loaded (using $ModLoad).</p>
+<p>[<a href="manual.html">manual index</a>]
+[<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">rsyslog.conf</a>]
+[<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 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 2 or higher.</font></p>
+</body>
+</html>
+
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<html><head><title>Output Channels - rsyslog.conf</title></head>
+<body>
+<p>This is a part of the rsyslog.conf documentation.</p>
+<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">back</a>
+<h2>Output Channels</h2>
+<p>Output Channels are a new concept first introduced in rsyslog
+0.9.0. <b>As of this writing, it is most likely that they will
+be replaced by something different in the future.</b> So if you
+use them, be prepared to change you configuration file syntax when you
+upgrade to a later release.<br>
+<br>
+The idea behind output channel definitions is that it shall provide an
+umbrella for any type of output that the user might want. In essence,<br>
+this is the "file" part of selector lines (and this is why we are not
+sure output channel syntax will stay after the next review). There is a<br>
+difference, though: selector channels both have filter conditions
+(currently facility and severity) as well as the output destination.
+they can only be used to write to files - not pipes, ttys or whatever
+Output channels define the output definition, only. As of this build,
+else. If we stick with output channels, this will change over time.</p>
+<p>In concept, an output channel includes everything needed to
+know about an output actions. In practice, the current implementation
+only carries<br>
+a filename, a maximum file size and a command to be issued when this
+file size is reached. More things might be present in future version,
+which might also change the syntax of the directive.</p>
+<p>Output channels are defined via an $outchannel directive. It's
+syntax is as follows:<br>
+<br>
+$outchannel name,file-name,max-size,action-on-max-size<br>
+<br>
+name is the name of the output channel (not the file), file-name is the
+file name to be written to, max-size the maximum allowed size and
+action-on-max-size a command to be issued when the max size is reached.
+This command always has exactly one parameter. The binary is that part
+of action-on-max-size before the first space, its parameter is
+everything behind that space.<br>
+<br>
+Please note that max-size is queried BEFORE writing the log message to
+the file. So be sure to set this limit reasonably low so that any
+message might fit. For the current release, setting it 1k lower than
+you expected is helpful. The max-size must always be specified in bytes
+- there are no special symbols (like 1k, 1m,...) at this point of
+development.<br>
+<br>
+Keep in mind that $outchannel just defines a channel with "name". It
+does not activate it. To do so, you must use a selector line (see
+below). That selector line includes the channel name plus an $ sign in
+front of it. A sample might be:<br>
+<br>
+*.* $mychannel<br>
+<br>
+In its current form, output channels primarily provide the ability to
+size-limit an output file. To do so, specify a maximum size. When this
+size is reached, rsyslogd will execute the action-on-max-size command
+and then reopen the file and retry. The command should be something
+like a <a href="log_rotation_fix_size.html">log rotation
+script</a> or a similar thing.</p>
+<p>If there is no action-on-max-size command or the command did
+not resolve the situation, the file is closed and never reopened by
+rsyslogd (except, of course, by huping it). This logic was integrated
+when we first experienced severe issues with files larger 2gb, which
+could lead to rsyslogd dumping core. In such cases, it is more
+appropriate to stop writing to a single file. Meanwhile, rsyslogd has
+been fixed to support files larger 2gb, but obviously only on file
+systems and operating system versions that do so. So it can still make
+sense to enforce a 2gb file size limit.</p>
+
+<p>[<a href="manual.html">manual index</a>]
+[<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">rsyslog.conf</a>]
+[<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 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 2 or higher.</font></p>
+</body>
+</html>
+
+
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<html><head><title>Templates - rsyslog.conf</title></head>
+<body>
+<p>This is a part of the rsyslog.conf - documentation.</p>
+<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">back</a>
+<h2>Templates</h2>
+<p>Templates are a key feature of rsyslog. They allow to specify
+any
+format a user might want. They are also used for dynamic file name
+generation. Every output in rsyslog uses templates - this holds true
+for files, user messages and so on. The database writer expects its
+template to be a proper SQL statement - so this is highly customizable
+too. You might ask how does all of this work when no templates at all
+are specified. Good question ;) The answer is simple, though. Templates
+compatible with the stock syslogd formats are hardcoded into rsyslogd.
+So if no template is specified, we use one of these hardcoded
+templates. Search for "template_" in syslogd.c and you will find the
+hardcoded ones.</p>
+<p>A template consists of a template directive, a name, the
+actual template text and optional options. A sample is:</p>
+<blockquote><code>$template MyTemplateName,"\7Text
+%property% some more text\n",&lt;options&gt;</code></blockquote>
+<p>The "$template" is the template directive. It tells rsyslog
+that this line contains a template. "MyTemplateName" is the template
+name. All
+other config lines refer to this name. The text within quotes is the
+actual template text. The backslash is an escape character, much as it
+is in C. It does all these "cool" things. For example, \7 rings the
+bell (this is an ASCII value), \n is a new line. C programmers and perl
+coders have the advantage of knowing this, but the set in rsyslog is a
+bit restricted currently.
+</p>
+<p>All text in the template is used literally, except for things
+within percent signs. These are properties and allow you access to the
+contents of the syslog message. Properties are accessed via the
+property replacer (nice name, huh) and it can do cool things, too. For
+example, it can pick a substring or do date-specific formatting. More
+on this is below, on some lines of the property replacer.<br>
+<br>
+The &lt;options&gt; part is optional. It carries options
+influencing the template as whole. See details below. Be sure NOT to
+mistake template options with property options - the later ones are
+processed by the property replacer and apply to a SINGLE property, only
+(and not the whole template).<br>
+<br>
+Template options are case-insensitive. Currently defined are: </p>
+<p><b>sql</b> - format the string suitable for a SQL
+statement in MySQL format. This will replace single quotes ("'") and
+the backslash character by their backslash-escaped counterpart ("\'"
+and "\\") inside each field. Please note that in MySQL configuration,
+the <code class="literal">NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES</code>
+mode must be turned off for this format to work (this is the default).</p>
+<p><b>stdsql</b> - format the string suitable for a
+SQL statement that is to be sent to a standards-compliant sql server.
+This will replace single quotes ("'") by two single quotes ("''")
+inside each field. You must use stdsql together with MySQL if in MySQL
+configuration the
+<code class="literal">NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES</code> is
+turned on.</p>
+<p>Either the <b>sql</b> or <b>stdsql</b>&nbsp;
+option <b>must</b> be specified when a template is used
+for writing to a database, otherwise injection might occur. Please note
+that due to the unfortunate fact that several vendors have violated the
+sql standard and introduced their own escape methods, it is impossible
+to have a single option doing all the work.&nbsp; So you yourself
+must make sure you are using the right format. <b>If you choose
+the wrong one, you are still vulnerable to sql injection.</b><br>
+<br>
+Please note that the database writer *checks* that the sql option is
+present in the template. If it is not present, the write database
+action is disabled. This is to guard you against accidental forgetting
+it and then becoming vulnerable to SQL injection. The sql option can
+also be useful with files - especially if you want to import them into
+a database on another machine for performance reasons. However, do NOT
+use it if you do not have a real need for it - among others, it takes
+some toll on the processing time. Not much, but on a really busy system
+you might notice it ;)</p>
+<p>The default template for the write to database action has the
+sql option set. As we currently support only MySQL and the sql option
+matches the default MySQL configuration, this is a good choice.
+However, if you have turned on
+<code class="literal">NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES</code> in
+your MySQL config, you need to supply a template with the stdsql
+option. Otherwise you will become vulnerable to SQL injection. <br>
+<br>
+To escape:<br>
+% = \%<br>
+\ = \\ --&gt; '\' is used to escape (as in C)<br>
+$template TraditionalFormat,%timegenerated% %HOSTNAME%
+%syslogtag%%msg%\n"<br>
+<br>
+Properties can be accessed by the <a href="property_replacer.html">property
+replacer</a> (see there for details).</p>
+<p><b>Please note that templates can also by
+used to generate selector lines with dynamic file names.</b> For
+example, if you would like to split syslog messages from different
+hosts to different files (one per host), you can define the following
+template:</p>
+<blockquote><code>$template
+DynFile,"/var/log/system-%HOSTNAME%.log"</code></blockquote>
+<p>This template can then be used when defining an output
+selector line. It will result in something like
+"/var/log/system-localhost.log"</p>
+<p>Template
+names beginning with "RSYSLOG_" are reserved for rsyslog use. Do NOT
+use them if, otherwise you may receive a conflict in the future (and
+quite unpredictable behaviour). There is a small set of pre-defined
+templates that you can use without the need to define it:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat</span>
+- the "old style" default log file format with low-precision timestamps</li>
+<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">RSYSLOG_FileFormat</span>
+- a modern-style logfile format similar to TraditionalFileFormat, buth
+with high-precision timestamps and timezone information</li>
+<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">RSYSLOG_TraditionalForwardFormat</span>
+- the traditional forwarding format with low-precision timestamps. Most
+useful if you send&nbsp;messages to other syslogd's or rsyslogd
+below
+version 3.12.5.</li>
+<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">RSYSLOG_ForwardFormat</span>
+- a new high-precision forwarding format very similar to the
+traditional one, but with high-precision timestamps and timezone
+information. Recommended to be used when sending messages to rsyslog
+3.12.5 or above.</li>
+<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format</span>
+- the format specified in IETF's internet-draft
+ietf-syslog-protocol-23, which is assumed to be come the new syslog
+standard RFC. This format includes several improvements. The rsyslog
+message parser understands this format, so you can use it together with
+all relatively recent versions of rsyslog. Other syslogd's may get
+hopelessly confused if receiving that format, so check before you use
+it. Note that the format is unlikely to change when the final RFC comes
+out, but this may happen.</li>
+<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">RSYSLOG_DebugFormat</span>
+- a special format used for troubleshooting property problems. This format
+is meant to be written to a log file. Do <b>not</b> use for production or remote
+forwarding.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>[<a href="manual.html">manual index</a>]
+[<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">rsyslog.conf</a>]
+[<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 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 2 or higher.</font></p>
+</body>
+</html>
+