[rsyslog] TLS/GSSAPI client message lost

[Tomas Kubina]

Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> I unfortunately do not have enough insight into GSSAPI to provide a real
> answer. My guess is that this happens for the same reason it can happen with
> any ack-less transport. In the plain tcp driver, I have done quite some work
> to try to limit loss potential. I have also some ideas of how to further try
> to prevent message loss, but you cannot totally aovid it.
>
> some background:
>
> http://blog.gerhards.net/2008/04/on-unreliability-of-plain-tcp-syslog.html
>
> Rainer
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
>> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Tomas Kubina
>> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 2:56 PM
>> To: rsyslog at lists.adiscon.com
>> Subject: [rsyslog] TLS/GSSAPI client message lost
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to use TLS or GSS for message delivering to central rsyslog
>> server.
>> The problem is that the first message logged after server's shutdown is
>> lost,
>> but when I use plain TCP this issue doesn't happen. Is it a feature or
>> mistake
>> in my config?
>>
>> Tomas
>
I have done a patch to GSSAPI based on your code from nsd_ptcp.c.
It works and can be added into svn if you want.

Regards,

Tomas Kubina