ok, that works, as you've suggested. at the cost of going through the motions of queue/dequeue on a separate queue, i get less brutal manageability of the logfile. low duty cycle of pstats should cause minimal load issues, i would expect.
i can live with this. thanks! of course, would be nice if pstats direct-to-file reacted appropriately to the HUP, but nbd... :-) On 7/30/15, 16:36, "David Lang" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Randall Diffenderfer wrote: > >> yes, the support of logrotate type file maintenance for "normal" >>targets i >> did note. >> >> i'm trying to figure out how big a hammer i need for the pstats output >> file... :-) >> >> apparently a full restart is needed? > >yes, if you have pstats write to a file, a full restart is needed. > >what I do is: > >module(load="impstats" interval="60" resetCounters="on" format="legacy" >ruleset="high_p") > ># define a high priority queue that will send impstats immediately rather ># than going into the main queue and possibly being delayed by other logs >ruleset(name="high_p" queue.type="FixedArray"){ > set $!trusted!local!input = $inputname; > action(type="mmjsonparse") > action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/pstats-local-messages" >name="pstats_local") > action(name="send_HP" type="omfwd" target="10.1.50.87" port="514" >protocol="udp" template="structured_forwarding" queue.type="FixedArray") >} > > >This sends the pstats logs to a separate ruleset, with it's own queue, so >it's >completely independent of anything else that's going on. > >that ruleset can then write the logs out, and normal processing rules >(including >HUP) work for them. > >David Lang >_______________________________________________ >rsyslog mailing list >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.adiscon.net_mail >man_listinfo_rsyslog&d=BQICAg&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjh >g&r=9sXs16LkSD1MzhoJxgyl7R_tait1dEXqvyD3NCT1wEA&m=MkaQPDo77NQdasL4zdGfbWI1 >biop-OghgOlGoZ2zJow&s=hd4SCKj1KXyVyEH6CWXIOdQtCR-U4wlHDpV2vklFtns&e= >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rsyslog.com_profes >sional-2Dservices_&d=BQICAg&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjhg& >r=9sXs16LkSD1MzhoJxgyl7R_tait1dEXqvyD3NCT1wEA&m=MkaQPDo77NQdasL4zdGfbWI1bi >op-OghgOlGoZ2zJow&s=JBVCPMOYrO2bOV8qPdQUiE8g2NQ1leosFWGAlqiermY&e= >What's up with rsyslog? Follow >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_rgerhards >&d=BQICAg&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjhg&r=9sXs16LkSD1MzhoJ >xgyl7R_tait1dEXqvyD3NCT1wEA&m=MkaQPDo77NQdasL4zdGfbWI1biop-OghgOlGoZ2zJow& >s=r7oEXLPdcGCw0-DevU28492X_OzpVjKoSAruppqy7H4&e= >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.

