From 69dd00dc9fdee79097fa45d1dbaa39be770aea42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Gerhards Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 07:58:31 +0000 Subject: added a few links for easier reading --- doc/manual.html | 7 +++---- doc/rsyslog_conf.html | 9 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/manual.html b/doc/manual.html index 5fc3e387..b4735d57 100644 --- a/doc/manual.html +++ b/doc/manual.html @@ -13,22 +13,21 @@ advanced features make it suitable for enterprise-class, encryption protected syslog relay chains while at the same time being very easy to setup for the novice user.

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Visit the rsyslog status page to obtain current +

Visit the rsyslog status page to obtain current version information and ports. If you like rsyslog, you might want to lend us a helping hand. It doesn't require a lot of time - even a single mouse click helps. Learn how to help the rsyslog project.

Follow the links below for the

We have some in-depth papers on

Also, there is an article from Dennis Olvany on Syslog-to-SQL with rsyslog-0.8.4 on FreeBSD 5.4 diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html index 977301e4..504eeca5 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html @@ -408,7 +408,14 @@ name. Thus, the selector line for our dynamic file name would look as follows:*.* ?DynFile

That's all you need to do. Rsyslog will now automatically generate file names -for you and store the right messages into the right files.

+for you and store the right messages into the right files. Please note that the +minus sign also works with dynamic file name selectors. Thus, to avoid syncing, +you may use

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+*.* -?DynFile

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And of course you can use templates to specify the output format:

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+*.* ?DynFile;MyTemplate

A word of caution: rsyslog creates files as needed. So if a new host is using your syslog server, rsyslog will automatically create a new file for it. However, directories are never created. So if you use a dynamic -- cgit v1.2.3