Michael Biebl wrote: > the current IncludeConfig implementation has some issues, especially > for distributers: > All files in the directory as specified by $IncludeConfig are included. > This means, temp files like *~ *.bak etc that are left behind by > editors, or stuff like *.rpmsave or *.dpkg-old/*.dpkg-new. > This is obviously unfortunate. > > How shall we solve this? > 1.) I patched the Debian package to only include files ending with > *.conf. If we document that properly this is imho an acceptable > solution. > 2.) Implement an internal blacklist of endings that are ignored (see above) > 3.) Instead of hardcoding the file ending to *.conf (as in 1.), use > the same syntax as e.g. apache, which allows to specify shell globs: > example: > Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/*.conf
i would opt for the third option - thou i'm not sure how much work this creates ;) cheers, raoul -- ____________________________________________________________________ DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc. email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technischer Leiter IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OEG web. http://www.ipax.at Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 ____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog

