Bug 1354663

Created attachment 1178549 [details]
Screen shot of documentation with call outs.

Title: Configuring rsyslog on the Centralized Logging Server

Describe the issue:
Steps 1 and 3 contain typos that need to be fixed.

Suggestions for improvement:

For step 1, the documentation gives the following command to add the rsyslog port 514 through SELinux.

  # semanage -a -t syslogd_port_t -p udp 514

However, the "port" command is missing there, and the full command needs to say:

  # semanage port -a -t syslogd_port_t -p udp 514

For step 3, the documentation lists the following /etc/rsyslog.conf entries.

  $template TmplAuth, "/var/log/%HOSTNAME%/%PROGRAMNAME%.log" 

  authpriv.*   ?TmplAuth
  *.info,mail.none,authpriv.none,cron.none   ?TmplMsg

The last time contains ?TmplMsg, which creates an error when rsyslog parses the config file. Changing ?TmplMsg to ?TmplAuth fixes the issue. Here is the correct config:

  $template TmplAuth, "/var/log/%HOSTNAME%/%PROGRAMNAME%.log" 

  authpriv.*   ?TmplAuth
  *.info,mail.none,authpriv.none,cron.none   ?TmplAuth


Additional information:

I've added a screen shot highlighting the sections mentioned above.

Here is a link to the document:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/3/html/Installation_and_Configuration_Guide/Configuring_the_rsyslog_Server.html