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

[RB]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 04:43, Rainer Gerhards<rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com> wrote:
> a) circular logs

This.  I keep getting distracted with other projects, but have had on
my TODO list to add an 'omclog' output module that both handles the
*BSD clog format and extends it for some particular shortcomings.
Specifically, I'm thinking of embedded concerns here - compression,
ringing on number of records, and a few miscallaneous implementation
oversights it (clog) has.

> b) stop logging when file hits max size (was that really what this post
> described?)

As noted, most people want this use-case to cut off logs when they hit
a particular size so they may be archived/processed/etc.  I honestly
couldn't care less whether rsyslog has internal compression
capability, as long as it closes the handle and releases it to me to
deal with.  Maybe a hook to call a program when the size trigger is
hit, but even with [di]notify that becomes less necessary.