> -----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 _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com

