[rsyslog] rsyslog v5 5.2.0

[Michael Biebl]

2009/11/4 Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com>:
> Michael,
>
> That is very probably the same regression that Luis Fernando mentioned for
> 4.5.5. All in all, I would be quite careful with 5.2.0, I really have the
> impression that folks simply didn't try it out. But as I wrote, I need to
> somehow get the process started to come to make v5 mainstream. It is really
> important to me to get rid of v4-devel, as it takes considerable time (and
> bug potential!) to have two branches that are in development state.

I can confirm that a5cd509be736fcff3c8ae3104712d2fe85776416 fixes this
issue for me using 5.2.0.
What about the -c compat flag? Is it intentional that there is no -c 5?
I will probably upload a 5.2.* to unstable (or experimental) soon,
which should give it some wider exposure.

Cheers,
Michael


> Rainer
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com
>> [mailto:rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Michael Biebl
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:30 PM
>> To: rsyslog-users
>> Subject: [rsyslog] rsyslog v5 5.2.0
>>
>> Hi Rainer, hi list
>>
>> I tried the latest v5 stable release.
>> First thing I noticed is, that it still uses -c 4 as native mode.
>> I also noticed problems with logging to a pipe. The default
>> rsyslog.conf file on Debian has a
>> daemon.*;mail.*;\
>>         news.err;\
>>         *.=debug;*.=info;\
>>         *.=notice;*.=warn       |/dev/xconsole
>>
>> But I get the following error:
>>
>> 9042.679173747:b7607b70: file to log to: |/dev/xconsole
>> 9042.679183525:b7607b70: doWrite, pData->pStrm 0x814d8c0, lenBuf 131
>> 9042.679194699:b7607b70: strm 0x814d8c0: file -1 flush, buflen 208
>> 9042.679225429:b7607b70: strm 0x814d8c0: open error 2, file
>> '|/dev/xconsole'
>>
>> I've put a complete debug log + config files at
>> http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/rsyslog/v5
>>
>> Rainer, maybe you can take a look.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>>
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