[rsyslog] omfile redesign / $OutChannel will go away!

[Aaron Wiebe]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Sergei Zhirikov<sfzhi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   * gzip the older logs rather than delete them. In case of log flood
> gzipping is usually very efficient, because the same message is repeated
> in the log multiple times, so there is no need to delete anything.

One thing worth noting is that the new omfile branch contains changes
that will allow gzipping of files automatically out of rsyslogd, which
removes the requirement to do it after writing to disk.  :)

-Aaron