Hi Don, I guess you were lost in the docs (it needs to be restrucuted some day... I begun with that, but that didn't yet result in improved ease of use, to phrase it politely ;)).
You use case is described in the relevant module's doc: http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-imuxsock.html Please let me know if that solves the issue. Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rsyslog- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Jackson > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 8:18 PM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: [rsyslog] rsyslog support for other chrooted apps > > > NB, in this email, I am *not* referring to any potential chroot > support within rsyslog itself! > > In an OS like OpenBSD, some/many daemons run in a chroot jail, two > common examples include postfix and named. > > The stock syslogd on OpenBSD supports this by a command line option "- > a" that adds new /dev/log devices. > > Thus, on one of my machines, syslogd is run like this: > > syslogd -a /var/spool/postfix/dev/log -a /var/named/dev/log -a > /var/ > empty/dev/log > > Which adds the three additional /dev/logs to the standard /dev/log, > and syslogd reads them all. > > In further testing of the OpenBSD port of rsyslog that I posted > earlier this week, > > http://lists.adiscon.net/pipermail/rsyslog/2008- > November/001395.html > > I finally realized that it is going to difficult to replace the stock > OpenBSD syslogd with rsyslogd unless it supports something like this. > > Questions, > > Does rsyslog support anything like this already? > > If not, how difficult would it be to add this, and do people here > think this is valuable addition, or not? > > Don > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
