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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2013-09-10 12:29:36 +0200
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2013-09-10 12:29:36 +0200
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doc: add reference to relevant blog posting (imfile "escapeLF" param)
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog1
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cbfbec5c..76bf4519 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
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@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Version 7.5.3 [devel] 2013-07-??
to the input statement. Given the trouble LFs cause and the fact
that the majority of installations still use legacy config, we
considered this behaviour change acceptable and useful.
+ see also: http://blog.gerhards.net/2013/09/imfile-multi-line-messages.html
- bugfix: queue file size was not correctly processed
this could lead to using one queue file per message for sizes >2GiB
Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
diff --git a/doc/imfile.html b/doc/imfile.html
index c9265b46..8c9a425f 100644
--- a/doc/imfile.html
+++ b/doc/imfile.html
@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ do not expect these. If set to "on", this option avoid this trouble by properly
LF characters to the 4-byte sequence "#012". This is consistent with other rsyslog control character
escaping. By default, escaping is turned on. If you turn it off, make sure you test very carefully
with all associated tools. Please note that if you intend to use plain TCP syslog with embedded
-LF characters, you need to enable octet-counted framing.
+LF characters, you need to enable octet-counted framing. For more details, see Rainer's blog posting on
+<a href="http://blog.gerhards.net/2013/09/imfile-multi-line-messages.html">imfile LF escaping</a>.
<li><b>MaxLinesAtOnce</b> [number]</b>
<br>
This is useful if multiple files need to be monitored. If set to 0, each file