Hi all, rsyslog 4.1.1, a member of the development branch, has been released today. Most importantly, it now contains the ability to drop privileges, thus enabling it to be executed without root permissions even if listening to privileged network ports. The release also contains a fix for a memory leak in the postgres output module and a fix for the klog input module, which did not compile under BSD.
Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/Article317.phtml Change Log: http://www.rsyslog.com/Downloads-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-140.phtml The "privilege drop" functionality was discussed on this list and, while not perfect, seems to provide some useful service. A number of restrictions is described here: http://wiki.rsyslog.com/index.php/Security I would like to express my gratitude for all opinions raised. If you have any more comments, please let them flow. Also feel free to add anything of interest to the Wiki. Obviously, I would be very interested in feedback from folks who really try the new functionality out. I hope this release is useful. Rainer _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
