On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > David, > > quick question, in order to help improve the document. Could you please look > at the second paragraph below the "radio tower picture". It says: > > "Now let's look at the action queues: here, the active part, the producer, is > the Parser and Filter Engine. The passive part is the Action Processor. The > latter does any processing that is necessary to call the output plugin, in > particular it processes the template to create the plugin calling parameters > (either a string or vector of arguments)." > > I thought that addresses the question on who generates the template strings. > I am not sure if you missed it, or if the wording is bad. If it is a problem > with the wording, I'd appreciate if you could suggest some text (it is always > a bit harder for the non-native English speakers, plus, I have to admit, I > do not really invest another day to do the full editorial work that would be > necessary to make this a great document - anyone up for this task? ;)).
I managed to miss this. in the next few days I'm going to try to write up my understanding of this (on the basis that if I can explain it, it means that I understand it) David Lang > Rainer > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:02 PM >> To: rsyslog-users >> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog queue operation - an overview >> >> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Rainer Gerhards wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> as I feared, clarifying queue operations took time. A full day of doc >> work, I >>> hope it is worth it - but I am positive it is, because good >> understanding of >>> this topic is vital to seriously discuss all the other issues that >> base on >>> these concepts. >>> >>> When I look at the resulting document, it doesn't look like it took a >> whole >>> day. Finding a good analogy was not easy, but with the help of Tom >> Bergfeld >>> and a long discussion we came up with one that I like more and more. >> It is >>> based on road junctions in everyday life and surprisingly precisely >> describes >>> how things work in rsyslog and why they work in that way. Still, a >> lot of >>> subtleties are missing (another day or three of work), but the >> overall >>> picture should be clear(er). So please give it a try: >>> >>> http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-queues_analogy.html >>> >>> Even though I will probably disappointed in that case, please let me >> know if >>> the document does not work for you (aka "you have no idea what I >> intend to >>> say"). Otherwise, I cannot improve it. So honest feedback is >> appreciated. >> >> this helps a lot. I'm still not sure where the template formatting >> takes >> place. >> >> David Lang >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
