[rsyslog] actionqueue in front of tcp forward

Johnny Tan linuxweb at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 22:05:54 CET 2008


Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> I have received the file and had a chance to look at it. It's quite
> confusing. The send fails, but each retry succeeds... It looks like you
> use stunnel. I currently doubt that stunnel accepts each send and only
> reports the error after it can not connect to the remote side. So in
> fact we continously run into the situation that exactly *that* one
> message is lost. But I am still puzzled. Could you, for a test, run the
> same without stunnel and tell me if the problem persists or goes away?

Yes, I had the same thought about stunnel being the problem 
and was running some tests.

It works! I now only lose the one message (known problem). 
But if I go over stunnel, then I lose all messages during 
the rsyslog server downtime.

I can do without the stunnel for now.

Thanks once again!
johnn


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