2015-03-02 18:51 GMT+01:00 David Lang <[email protected]>: > On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Ehua_Kassi wrote: > > >> I don't understand your issue. Outputs (like ommail) don't care what >>>>> input >>>>> the message arrived through. >>>>> >>>> > I can agree with you at the exception that we can find in official >> documentation of ommail a note about imfile >> To be more precise : >> http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/modules/ommail.html >> "Please note that ommail is especially well-suited to work in tandem with >> imfile to watch files for the occurence of specific things to be alerted >> on. >> So its scope is far broader than forwarding syslog messages to mail >> recipients." >> >> This is the only place where i can read about this. So it seems to me >> that ommail can be triggered through the files watched by imfile. I >> don't >> know how, and this is the first reason why i came here. But after all you >> said it seems that this functionnality is not implemented or i just miss >> understood this part of the documentation. >> > > There is nothing special about imfile that triggers ommail any differently > than other inputs. I don't understand why that statement is in the > documentation. > > I wrote this. My intent was to say that you can watch files with rsyslog and send email on occurrence of interesting events. Many folks -at least at those days- thought that rsyslog can process syslog messages, only.
Any better rewording? Rainer > David Lang > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ 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 NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
