> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:41 AM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: [rsyslog] imfile ideas > > deliberatly breaking the subject here to call attention to this portion of a prior > post > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, [email protected] wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Todd Michael Bushnell wrote: > > > >> Is it also a viable solution for files containing logs from, for > >> example, Log4j where I have log entries that may be different > >> severity levels? If not, I'm sure I can break up accordingly. > >> Performance wise, is this a production grade alternative to using > >> Logger to throw log messages at the domain socket? I wasn't sure > >> given that the online docs for configuring Apache do not mention imfile. > > > > It isn't designed for this, I wonder if the new parser stack can be > > made to work with imfile (since Rainer is working on modifications in > > this area, it may be a good time for this to be added) > > I'm wondering if it would make sense to change imfile to use a parser stack > like the other inputs, this way if you have a file with specific formats you > could easily write a parser to do a excellantjob with that format. > > I don't know if the exiting paragraph variation to imfile could be re-worked as > a set of parsers, of if they would need to remain, with the parser kicking in on > the data selected (line, or paragraph based) > > the default parser would be 'make all the data be the message, and set the > type and severity from config variables' to match existing behavior.
This sounds like a very interesting approach. But I'd like to wait for the imfile refactoring to finish, because the more we change in existing code, the harder it becomes to merge both together. Rainer > > 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
