[rsyslog] FreeBSD and rsyslog

[RB]

> I've been working on integrating rsyslog into a FreeBSD environment, and the
> following issues and questions have come up along the way:

You're not alone, I've just gotten distracted along the way and not
chased down any issues.

> 2. The other FreeBSD facility in use is console, which logs all writes to
> /dev/console to the console log facility. I'm not sure how important this
> feature is, and it's certainly something I can live without, but it doesn't
> seem supported in rsyslog.

Curious, I'd not carefully looked at that - it's a character device.  No idea.

> 3. FreeBSD syslog reads from two sockets, /var/run/log and /var/run/logpriv.
> I was curious about support for /var/run/logpriv, however I can't find a
> great deal of information about how and where this socket is used - other
> than for privileged applications.

Should be addressable with imuxsock and permissions; not much to that.

> 4. Finding the equivalent to the syslogd -b flag, to bind to a specific IP
> address is probably at the top of my list right now. Is there any feature to
> achieve this that I'm missing?

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