On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > Just some more information for anyone interested. I today looked at the > module. First of all, there is a directive to set the hostname > ($InputUnixListenSocketHostName) but I also found out that there exist > undocumented functionality to activate hostname parsing. In theory, this is > done by putting a colon in front of the socket name. In practice, there seems > to be a bug that prevents this from working at all (the colon is not > removed). So it probably was good this was not documented ;)
so if you use a socket name that starts with a colon it should work right? ;-) David Lang > I'll see that I fix that first, so that we have some basic functionality in > place. > > Rainer > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ales Kozumplik >> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 1:11 PM >> To: rsyslog-users >> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] log forwarding through unix sockets >> >> On 07/30/2010 03:28 PM, Ryan Lynch wrote: >>> I like your method, too. And thank you for mentioning 'socat', that's >>> what gave me the idea to go in this direction, in the first place. >> >> Thanks. To tell you the truth at the end we found a way to forward from >> qemu to a TCP socket, and I am happy I don't have to deal with unix >> sockets any more. >> >>> Based on my own tests, I believe that 'imuxsock' and 'imudp' use >>> different logic to parse incoming messages. 'imuxsock' always assumes >> >> That's exactly my feeling about this. I just think one either should be >> able to tell every input module what format should be expected (instead >> of letting rsyslogd try some guessing method), or that every input >> module should by default understand a standard "officially recommended" >> forwarding format. >> >> Ales >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
