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

[Sergei Zhirikov]

RB wrote:
> 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.

I completely agree.

By the way, I use the inotify method to handle logs written by Samba 
server, which does have a log size limit, but does not call an external 
program when that limit is exceeded. So far I did not have any problems 
with that setup.

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Sergei.