> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 1:02 AM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog migration and syslogd.conf > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, lanas wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > First, thanks to David for the reply on time stamps. > > > > I have a question about perhaps being able to replace syslogd by > > rsyslog in a so-called 'drop-in' way. Eg. will rsyslog work (I > > reckon with limited possibilities) with a standard syslog config > > file ? That would enable a basic set of functionality as a first > step > > toward using rsyslog's features. > > no, rsyslog will do nothing if you just feed it a syslog.conf file.
Actually, rsyslog is designed as a drop-in replacement. So it should work if you just feed it a regular rsyslog.conf. This is controlled via the -c option, which sets the compatibility level. If you call rsyslogd like you called sysklogd (without the -c option), it will fall back to sysklogd compatibility and generate the necessary config commands before parsing the the config file. Then, -r starts up a UDP listener as it did in sysklogd. ... At least this is how it is meant to work, I have to admit I have not tested it lately. For various reasons, I could not add this to the automated testbench, so I might not have noticed a regression. But if it does not work, this is a bug and not how things are designed to work. Rainer > rsyslog needs a few additional instructions at the top of the file to > load > the modules, but below that you can paste in the syslog.conf file. > > another thing that you can do is to make a generic rsyslog.conf file > that > includes the syslog.conf after the rsyslog specific headers. > > My rsyslog.conf (on my ubuntu 9.10 laptop) has > > $ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging > $ModLoad imklog # provides kernel logging support (previously done by > rklogd) > $ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat > $FileOwner syslog > $FileGroup adm > $FileCreateMode 0640 > $DirCreateMode 0755 > $Umask 0022 > $PrivDropToUser syslog > $PrivDropToGroup syslog > $RepeatedMsgReduction on > $RepeatedMsgContainsOriginalMsg on > > 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
