From 7e10c67a1737d19f5038ad1164b29804d47d9bce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Gerhards Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:01:10 +0000 Subject: updated doc to reflect 1.11.0 --- doc/features.html | 5 ++--- doc/history.html | 14 +++++++++----- doc/rsyslog_stunnel.html | 2 +- doc/status.html | 6 +++--- 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/features.html b/doc/features.html index 0624e503..6f7f6af7 100644 --- a/doc/features.html +++ b/doc/features.html @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ is going on, you can also subscribe to the writing to MySQL databases
  • support for (plain) tcp - based syslog - much better reliability
  • control of log output format, + based syslog - much better reliability
  • support for receiving messages via reliable RFC 3195 delivery
  • control of log output format, including ability to present channel and priority as visible log data
  • good timestamp format control; at a minimum, ISO 8601/RFC 3339 second-resolution UTC zone
  • ability to reformat message contents and work with substrings
  • support for log files larger than 2gb
  • support for file size limitation and automatic @@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ is going on, you can also subscribe to the syslog-protocol-14 compliant messages (pending, as IETF will change proposed format)
  • support for native SSL enryption of plain tcp syslog sessions -
  • RFC 3195 support - planned (but late) -
  • pcre filtering - maybe (depending on feedback)  - simple regex already +
  • support for RFC 3195 as a sender - planned
  • pcre filtering - maybe (depending on feedback)  - simple regex already partly added
  • multi-threaded redesign - maybe (depending on feedback; also opens Pandorra's cross-platform development box ;)) diff --git a/doc/history.html b/doc/history.html index d40d13ca..91ee4909 100644 --- a/doc/history.html +++ b/doc/history.html @@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ places indicated that RFC3195 is NOT a prime priority for users, but rather better control over the output format. So here we are, with a rsyslod that covers a lot of enhancements, but not a single one of these that made its name ;) Since version 0.9.2, receiving syslog messages -via plain tcp is finally supported, bringing rsyslogd a bit closer to its name. -

    +via plain tcp is finally supported, a bit later sending via TCP, too. Starting +with 1.11.0, RFC 3195 is finally support at the receiving side (a.k.a. "listener"). +Support for sending via RFC 3195 is still due. Anyhow, rsyslog has come much +closer to what it name promises.

    The next enhancement scheduled is support for the new syslog-protocol internet draft format, not the least to see how easy/complicated it is to implement. We already know that some subleties of syslog-protocol will @@ -42,7 +44,7 @@ we intend to advance the code and introduce new features.

    The database support was included so that our web-based syslog interface can be used. This is another open source project which can be found -under http://www.liblogging.org. We highly recommend having a look at +under http://www.phplogcon.org. We highly recommend having a look at it. It might not work for you if you expect thousands of messages per second (because your database won't be able to provide adequate performance), but in many cases it is a very handy analysis and troubleshooting tool. @@ -60,8 +62,10 @@ sizes of 32k and more. This feature has been tested, but by default is turned of (as it has some memory footprint that we didn't want to put on users not actually requiring it). Search the file syslogd.c and search for "IHE" - you will find easy and precise instructions on what you need to change (it's just -one line of code!). -

    Be sure to visit Rainer's syslog block +one line of code!). Please note that RFC 3195/COOKED supports 1K message sizes +only. It'll probably support longer messages in the future, but it is our +believe that using larger messages with current RFC 3195 is a violation of the +standard.

    Be sure to visit Rainer's syslog block to get some more insight into the development of rsyslog and syslog in general.

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