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Bug 456030
rsyslog.conf lacks a proper description of syslog.conf syntax
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[patch]
manual patch
rsyslog-3.21.0-manual.patch (text/plain), 3.66 KB, created by
Lukas Kuklinek
on 2008-07-30 15:29:58 UTC
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2008-07-30 15:29:58 UTC
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>diff -up rsyslog-3.21.0/tools/rsyslog.conf.5.orig rsyslog-3.21.0/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 >--- rsyslog-3.21.0/tools/rsyslog.conf.5.orig 2008-07-18 15:46:00.000000000 +0200 >+++ rsyslog-3.21.0/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 2008-07-30 17:17:47.000000000 +0200 >@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ $ModLoad imtcp > $InputTCPServerRun 514 > .TP > .TP >-.I imtcp >+.I imrelp > Input plugin for the RELP protocol. RELP can be used instead > of UDP or plain TCP syslog to provide reliable delivery of > syslog messages. Please note that plain TCP syslog does NOT >@@ -159,6 +159,54 @@ Every rule line consists of two fields, > two fields are separated by one or more spaces or tabs. The selector field specifies > a pattern of facilities and priorities belonging to the specified action. > >+.SH SELECTORS >+ >+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. >+ >+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. >+ >+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. >+ >+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. >+ >+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. >+ >+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. >+ >+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. >+ >+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. >+ > .SH ACTIONS > 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
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