also sprach David Lang <[email protected]> [2016-01-28 17:15 +1300]:
> rsyslog has a per-action cache of files that have been written to
> by that action, when you start writing to a new one, and the cache
> is full, rsyslog will close the least recently written to file
> (which can be a big problem if your cache isn't large enough and
> you try to write to the just-evicted file a ms later)

I do not understand this, or the implications this has. :(

Does this affect dynamic filenames, i.e. filenames with the date in
them?

> if you key your files on the real time of the server, and time
> goes backwards, you will add logs to an 'earlier' file.

I am willing to live with this and ensure that time is properly
kept.

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