On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:07 AM >> To: rsyslog-users >> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] $template to create filename, ownership, and >> other file-related questions >> >> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Rainer Gerhards wrote: >> >> >> in sysklogd syslog.conf -...@ip is valid >> > >> > Really? What does it do? As far as I remember, in sysklogd "-" was >> tied to >> > files as well as in rsyslog (keep in mind that I started with the >> sysklogd >> > config parser). >> >> it may not do anything, but it accepts it without any problem. I >> recently >> upgraded a bunch of systems and discovered a week or so later that I >> wasn't getting logs from them and the reasons ended up being that I had >> copied the - from the old syslog.conf file into the rsyslog.conf file. >> removing it and restarting rsyslog made the logs flow again. > > That's interesting. IMHO it is a config error which is simply not caught by > the sysklogd parser. It would be somewhat hard to emulate that in rsyslog, at > least with the new config system. But if it is considered worth it, I could > look into this issue. > How about just mentioning it in the rsyslog.conf man page or something like that? i guess the other question is how compatible to sysklogd do you want to be and when to say enough is enough?
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