From 48e01bf4154aedd635c77094ecb58858af2b4c3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Gerhards Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:59:29 +0200 Subject: doc: imfile: clarified that empty lines are not processed --- doc/imfile.html | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/imfile.html b/doc/imfile.html index 89be3292..eb1a72a9 100644 --- a/doc/imfile.html +++ b/doc/imfile.html @@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ text file is a file consisting of printable characters with lines being delimited by LF.

The file is read line-by-line and any line read is passed to rsyslog's rule engine. The rule engine applies filter conditons and -selects which actions needs to be carried out.

+selects which actions needs to be carried out. Empty lines are not +processed, as they would result in empty syslog records. They are simply +ignored.

As new lines are written they are taken from the file and processed. Please note that this happens based on a polling interval and not immediately. The file monitor support file rotation. To fully -- cgit v1.2.3