tag 561503 + patch thanks Le jeudi 17 décembre 2009, Philipp Weis a écrit : > I assume that the hyphens in rsyslog.conf in front of some filenames > indicate that these files aren't synced after every message, but > there's no information about this in the manpage.
Well, I found the same problem, so I fixed it. Here is a patch that adds documentation about the -file syntax to rsyslogd.conf(5) manpage. I attach this patch in two formats: * the git-format-patch, ready to be git-am'ed: this one adds a patch in debian/patches; * the raw patch itself against tools/rsyslog.conf.5. Use the one you prefer! Regards, -- ,--. : /` ) Tanguy Ortolo <xmpp:tan...@ortolo.eu> <irc://irc.oftc.net/Elessar> | `-' Theoretically Debian Maintainer \_
Author: Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+deb...@ortolo.eu>
Last-Update: 2010-12-31
Description: Document the -file form in rsyslog.conf(5)
The regular file action allows to prepend file name with a minus sign
to omit syncing the file after every logging. This patch documents it
on the manpage.
Index: rsyslog/tools/rsyslog.conf.5
===================================================================
--- rsyslog.orig/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 2010-12-31 16:31:53.937106592 +0100
+++ rsyslog/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 2010-12-31 16:32:11.549106726 +0100
@@ -216,6 +216,10 @@
Typically messages are logged to real files. The file has to be specified with full pathname,
beginning with a slash ('/').
+You may prefix each entry with the minus "-'' sign to omit syncing the file
+after every logging. Note that you might lose information if the system crashes
+right behind a write attempt.
+
.B Example:
.RS
*.* /var/log/traditionalfile.log;RSYSLOG_TraditionalFormat # log to a file in the traditional format
From 2624aeccec5948d0f74631d7d2ab9a5ba9cf526a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+deb...@ortolo.eu>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:37:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Document async file in rsyslogd.conf(5)
---
.../patches/03-manpage_document_async_files.patch | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++
debian/patches/series | 1 +
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 debian/patches/03-manpage_document_async_files.patch
diff --git a/debian/patches/03-manpage_document_async_files.patch b/debian/patches/03-manpage_document_async_files.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eb06fe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/03-manpage_document_async_files.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Author: Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+deb...@ortolo.eu>
+Last-Update: 2010-12-31
+Description: Document the -file form in rsyslog.conf(5)
+ The regular file action allows to prepend file name with a minus sign
+ to omit syncing the file after every logging. This patch documents it
+ on the manpage.
+
+Index: rsyslog/tools/rsyslog.conf.5
+===================================================================
+--- rsyslog.orig/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 2010-12-31 16:31:53.937106592 +0100
++++ rsyslog/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 2010-12-31 16:32:11.549106726 +0100
+@@ -216,6 +216,10 @@
+ Typically messages are logged to real files. The file has to be specified with full pathname,
+ beginning with a slash ('/').
+
++You may prefix each entry with the minus "-'' sign to omit syncing the file
++after every logging. Note that you might lose information if the system crashes
++right behind a write attempt.
++
+ .B Example:
+ .RS
+ *.* /var/log/traditionalfile.log;RSYSLOG_TraditionalFormat # log to a file in the traditional format
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 3bdc4f1..68e1a77 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
# Debian patches for rsyslog
01-dont_create_db.patch
02-tls_loop_fix.patch
+03-manpage_document_async_files.patch
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1.7.2.3
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