From 1234d7c8cd5d76862510cff315ea965c4f978e55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Gerhards Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:41:16 +0200 Subject: doc: updated rsyslog.conf man page with new syntaxes --- tools/rsyslog.conf.5 | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools') diff --git a/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 b/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 index e17da974..6ce3c0e0 100644 --- a/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 +++ b/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 @@ -272,14 +272,16 @@ Please note that rsyslogd offers a variety of options in regarding to remote forwarding. For full details, please see the html documentation. .SS List of users -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. +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 ":omusrmsg:" followed +by the login name. You may specify more than one +user by separating them with commas (','). If they're logged in they +get the message (for example: ":omusrmsg:root,user1,user2"). .SS Everyone logged on 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 ('*'). +is happening with the system. To specify this wall(1)-feature use an ":omusrmsg:*". .SS Database table This allows logging of the message to a database table. @@ -558,10 +560,10 @@ that space. 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: +name plus ":omfile:$" in front of it. A sample might be: .sp .RS -*.* $mychannel +*.* :omfile:$mychannel .RE .SH PROPERTY REPLACER -- cgit