[rsyslog] Output to named pipes not working on v4.5.5?

[Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías]

So, this has two parts:

1) A SELinux problem on RHEL5 and similar (but the logs show
   nothing!!). It seems the syslog context is not allowed to access
   FIFOs. I'll have to fix that.

2) Even when there are no permission problems, rsyslog 4.5.5 just
   doesn't write to a named pipe. From the following consecutive lines:

*.* |/var/log/external/fifo
*.* /var/log/external/file

the file receives data, the FIFO doesn't.

I'll paste all this to bugzilla.

Cheers.
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Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías
Luis.Fernando.Munoz.Mejias at cern.ch