From 071c9b511a711725537eff386f82a3af3ca930a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Gerhards Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 14:53:44 +0200 Subject: added $LogRSyslogStatusMessages configuration directive ...permitting to turn off rsyslog start/stop/HUP messages. See Debian ticket http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463793 --- doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html') diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html index 2bbb136e..f2642ca4 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html @@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ Usually that should not be a big issue, as the restart-type HUP can easily be re something along the lines of "/etc/init.d/rsyslog restart".
  • $IncludeConfig
  • MainMsgQueueCheckpointInterval <number>
    • +
  • $LogRSyslogStatusMessages [on/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.
  • $MainMsgQueueDequeueSlowdown <number> [number is timeout in microseconds (1000000us is 1sec!), default 0 (no delay). Simple rate-limiting!]
    • -- cgit From bfac3c68f47b8769b0936fb80eeea8880793fd2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Gerhards Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:23:47 +0200 Subject: added new config directive $omfileForceChown to fix some broken system configs. See ticket for details: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=150 --- doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html') diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html index 74255c54..5f80f92e 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html @@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ 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 -off- is primarily an aid to preserve the traditional syslogd behaviour. +
  • $omfileForceChown - force ownership change for all files
  • $RepeatedMsgContainsOriginalMsg [on/off] - "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 -- cgit From 26893eb8edfa38fb06c61379919a817dadf01615 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Gerhards Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:39:46 +0100 Subject: added at least minimal doc for $EscapeControlCharacterTab --- doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html') diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html index 5f80f92e..76dce26d 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html @@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ our paper on using multiple rule sets in rsyslog$DropTrailingLFOnReception
  • $DynaFileCacheSize
  • $EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive
    • +
  • $EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive [on|off] - escape USASCII HT character
  • $ErrorMessagesToStderr [on|off] - direct rsyslogd error message to stderr (in addition to other targets)
  • $FailOnChownFailure
  • $FileCreateMode
    • -- cgit From d19806431653e6575a002ab48206c16d3041e465 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Gerhards Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:08:00 +0200 Subject: added new $Sleep directive to hold processing for a couple of seconds during startup --- doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html') diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html index 8137bcba..8c1cc9a7 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html @@ -273,6 +273,9 @@ the value, the less precise the timestamp.
  • $PrivDropToGroupID
  • $PrivDropToUser
  • $PrivDropToUserID
    • +
  • $Sleep <seconds> - 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!
  • $UMASK

    • Where <size_nbr> is specified above, @@ -291,7 +294,7 @@ point of view, "1,,0.0.,.,0" also has the value 1000.

    [rsyslog site]

    This documentation is part of the rsyslog project.
    -Copyright © 2008, 2009 by Rainer Gerhards and +Copyright © 2008-2010 by Rainer Gerhards and Adiscon. Released under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.

    -- cgit From 699d0d933ab64941d40df17c69b2c377231924cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Gerhards Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:29:20 +0100 Subject: added $LocalHostName config directive & some bugfixing - added $LocalHostName config directive - bugfix: local hostname was pulled too-early, so that some config directives (namely FQDN settings) did not have any effect --- doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html') diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html index 8c1cc9a7..b58ae9c2 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_global.html @@ -150,6 +150,12 @@ Usually that should not be a big issue, as the restart-type HUP can easily be re something along the lines of "/etc/init.d/rsyslog restart".
  • $IncludeConfig
  • MainMsgQueueCheckpointInterval <number>
    • +
  • $LocalHostName [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+.
  • $LogRSyslogStatusMessages [on/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 -- cgit