> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Roy Smith > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 4:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [rsyslog] Upgrading from 4.2.0 to > > We're running rsyslog 4.2.0 on Ubuntu 10.04. Recently, as we've been > ramping up traffic, we've started experiencing frequent cases of > rsyslogd getting wedged. Messages stop getting forwarded to our > central logging host, and applications writing to /dev/log start to > block in sendto() calls. Restarting rsyslogd gets things going again > (for a while). We're currently processing about 10 million logged > lines per day per application server. > > It looks like the latest and greatest is 6.2.2. We're thinking of > installing that to see if it solves our problems. Are there any > backwards compatibility issues we should be aware of between 6.2.2 and > 4.2.0?
There should be none, but it probably is a good idea to go through the relevant compatibility docs: http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v5compatibility.html http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v6compatibility.html Rainer _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards

