> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 5:50 PM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] log forwarding through unix sockets
> 
> 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?
> ;-)

indeed... ;) [but I've not yet tested it, right now thinking about creating
an automated test...]

Rainer
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