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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2010-04-12 09:10:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2010-04-12 09:10:19 +0200 |
| commit | 25bc3b2e30deaee00fcf183e885378a0d64ae94c (patch) | |
| tree | 9003917ec023600f4e2916a5907d5a35856b928e /doc/rsyslog_conf_actions.html | |
| parent | 62e00d7a1c1d0301d50e7a28cb84563d61410ecd (diff) | |
| parent | 5ef852f4a3f030f61254a963b0d2dca290933e3c (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'v4-stable-solaris' into v4-devel
Conflicts:
ChangeLog
configure.ac
doc/manual.html
tools/omfile.c
tools/syslogd.c
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diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf_actions.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf_actions.html index 8c4b9cfc..6020dd88 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf_actions.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf_actions.html @@ -37,8 +37,15 @@ compared to the otherwise-equal config directives below:</p> *.=crit /var/log/critmsgs</b></code></p> <p> </p> <h3>Regular File</h3> -<p>Typically messages are logged to real files. The file has to -be specified with full pathname, beginning with a slash "/''.<br> +<p>Typically messages are logged to real files. The file usually is +specified by full pathname, beginning with a slash "/". +Starting with version 4.6.2 and 5.4.1 (previous v5 version do NOT support this) +relative file names can also be specified. To do so, these must begin with a +dot. For example, use "./file-in-current-dir.log" to specify a file in the +current directory. Please note that rsyslogd usually changes its working +directory to the root, so relative file names must be tested with care (they +were introduced primarily as a debugging vehicle, but may have useful other applications +as well).<br> <br> <br> You may prefix each entry with the minus "-'' sign to omit syncing the |