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DescriptionJan Pazdziora (Red Hat)
2019-08-29 12:20:38 UTC
Description of problem:
The rsyslog-gnutls rpm only ships
$ rpm -ql rsyslog-gnutls
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/ad68b613261f69d178676e834ee1941b5059c5
/usr/lib64/rsyslog/lmnsd_gtls.so
so there seem to be no documentation or man page about its purpose or behaviour. Checking the rpm -qi rsyslog-gnutls output, it says
Summary : TLS protocol support for rsyslog
Description :
The rsyslog-gnutls package contains the rsyslog plugins that provide the
ability to receive syslog messages via upcoming syslog-transport-tls
IETF standard protocol.
However, the same Description has been there since RHEL 6. Is there some new upcoming syslog-transport-tls IETF standard protocol coming? Or is this about RFC 5425 from 2009?
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rsyslog-gnutls-8.37.0-12.el8.x86_64
How reproducible:
Deterministic.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to figure out what rsyslog-gnutls is about.
Actual results:
No documentation in the package, no man page, and rpm header Description talking about some upcoming standard.
Expected results:
Documentation, man page, or rpm header Description being more accurate about the plugin, its relation to standard, and ideally its usage.
Additional info:
Comment 1Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat)
2019-08-29 12:28:07 UTC
Another confusing part of the Description is the part about
ability to receive syslog messages via upcoming syslog-transport-tls
which somehow suggests that it is only needed on the machine active as a receiver for remote syslog reception. While it seems that it is needed on the rsyslog client which send to the remote server via TLS as well.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.
For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.
If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1702