I have "-r" as one of the flags in SYSLOGD_OPTIONS in /etc/sysconfig/syslog. When I upgraded to rsyslog as part of a "yum update" against devel, it copied /etc/sysconfig/syslog to /etc/sysconfig/rsyslog, preserving the "-r" flag, and thus causing rsyslog to fail to start up properly. I think the upgrade from sysklog to rsyslog probably needs to be a bit smarter about stuff in /etc/sysconfig/syslog.
Also, the /etc/sysconfig/rsyslog that ships with rsyslog still claims that -r does something that it doesn't and still lists -m 0 even though (according to the man page) it doesn't do anything with rsyslogd.
As best as I can tell, the equivalent of "-r" in sysklogd is "-r 0" in rsyslogd.
It should be fixed in rsyslog-1.17.1-1.fc8
I am the rsyslog maintainer. I will fix the -r option in 1.17.2. The rule, I think, should be that if -r is NOT followed by a number, that means -r 0, which is compatible with what sysklogd did. Will check on -m 0.
I have now changed the -r option, its cvs and will be available in 1.17.2 as said before. The -m option is fully functional, that was a doc error. Its corrected now.
upstream version 1.17.2 was just built