On Apr 5, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Rainer Gerhards wrote: >> The issue is the repeating of identical information throughout the >> rsyslog.conf. With a few hundred lines, and dozens of references to >> the same loghost, same port, etc it becomes somewhat silly to make >> changes. It would be very useful to be able to define the hostname, >> port and potentially the format in a single place. (as syslog-ng >> allows) > > This dynamic hostname is not supported. Actually, it's the first time someone > asks, but I have to admit I see some value in it. > > However, is > s/oldname/newname/g > such a problem?
I just wanted to add a new answer to this. If I am reading the queue configuration and some online examples right, then I have to put 4-5 lines of queue configuration if I wanted a LinkedList queue for forwarding to a remote system. This really, really makes the case for defining a forwarding queue in a single place, as this gets very silly $WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog/fwd-host1 $ActionQueueFileName fwdHost1 $ActionQueueMaxDiskSpace 1g $ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown on $ActionQueueType LinkedList $ActionResumeRetryCount -1 if this and that then @@remoteHost1:514 $WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog/fwd-host2 $ActionQueueFileName fwdHost2 $ActionQueueMaxDiskSpace 1g $ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown on $ActionQueueType LinkedList $ActionResumeRetryCount -1 if one and another then @@remoteHost2:514 $WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog/fwd-host1 $ActionQueueFileName fwdHost1 $ActionQueueMaxDiskSpace 1g $ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown on $ActionQueueType LinkedList $ActionResumeRetryCount -1 if more and yetmore then @@remoteHost1:514 Please please tell me I am misunderstanding and you can easily define a single queue on a per-host basis, no matter how many rules forward messages to that host. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/
