[rsyslog] rsyslog V2: Applications block when rsyslog has remote messages queued

[Rainer Gerhards]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com 
> [mailto:rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of O'Rourke, Don
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 9:51 PM
> To: rsyslog at lists.adiscon.com
> Subject: [rsyslog] rsyslog V2: Applications block when 
> rsyslog has remote messages queued
> 
> I'm running rsyslog 2.0.6 and ran into a problem in which an 
> application blocked when the remote rsyslog server became 
> unavailable.  I noticed this problem reported in a post to 
> this message board in August:
> 
> http://lists.adiscon.net/pipermail/rsyslog/2009-August/002576.html
> 
> Is it possible that this problem will eventually be fixed in V2?

It's very unlikely. V2 is a *very* old release (we are at v5 now), that I
only work on under paid assignments. Even then, I am not sure if it can be
fixed without pulling most of the core v3 code. But I haven't looked at the
issue, so it may be possible...

Rainer