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author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-02-14 15:43:50 +0000 |
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committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-02-14 15:43:50 +0000 |
commit | 52b6b6f2211718101e43de05e5292f555e8198a8 (patch) | |
tree | e84f9d0fe3cc2c436d944357812712e6961ef296 /doc/imfile.html | |
parent | d6b22dd69ea85d024eaaac93e2a6521669f1ccc0 (diff) | |
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- added new facility and severity syntaxes to cfsysline handler
- implemented $InputFileFacility config directive
- implemented $InputFileSeverity config directive
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diff --git a/doc/imfile.html b/doc/imfile.html index 15ace7c1..3cc8308d 100644 --- a/doc/imfile.html +++ b/doc/imfile.html @@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ $WorkDirectory). Be careful to use unique names for different files being monitored. If there are duplicates, all sorts of "interesting" things may happen. Rsyslog currently does not check if a name is specified multiple times.</li> +<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">$InputFileFacility +facility</span><br> +The syslog facility to be assigned to lines read. Can be specified in +textual form (e.g. "local0", "local1", ...) or as numbers (e.g. 128 for +"local0"). Textual form is suggested. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Default</span> is "local0".<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></li> +<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">$InputFileSeverity</span><br> +The +syslog severity to be assigned to lines read. Can be specified in +textual form (e.g. "info", "warning", ...) or as numbers (e.g. 4 for +"info"). Textual form is suggested. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Default</span> is "notice".</li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">$InputRunFileMonitor</span><br> This <span style="font-weight: bold;">activates</span> the current monitor. It has no parameters. If you forget this @@ -61,7 +71,8 @@ directive, no file monitoring will take place.</li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">$InputFilePollInterval seconds</span><br> This is a global setting. It specifies how often files are to be polled -for new data. The time specified is in seconds. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">default value</span> is 10 seconds. Please note that future +for new data. The time specified is in seconds. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">default value</span> is 10 +seconds. Please note that future releases of imfile may support per-file polling intervals, but currently this is not the case. If multiple $InputFilePollInterval statements are present in rsyslog.conf, only the last one is used.<br> @@ -83,7 +94,9 @@ the source needs to be patched. See define MAX_INPUT_FILES in imfile.c <p>The following sample monitors two files. If you need just one, remove the second one. If you need more, add them according to the sample ;). This code must be placed in /etc/rsyslog.conf (or wherever -your distro puts rsyslog's config files).<br> +your distro puts rsyslog's config files). Note that only commands +actually needed need to be specified. The second file uses less +commands and uses defaults instead.<br> </p> <textarea rows="15" cols="60">$ModLoad imfile.so # needs to be done just once @@ -91,6 +104,8 @@ needs to be done just once $InputFileName /path/to/file1 $InputFileTag tag1: $InputFileStateFile stat-file1 +$InputFileSeverity error +$InputFileFacility local7 $InputRunFileMonitor # File 2 $InputFileName /path/to/file2 |