[rsyslog] rsyslog 4.5.x queue file cleanup?

[Marc Schiffbauer]

Am Freitag, 16. Oktober 2009 14:07:23 schrieb Rainer Gerhards:
> busy day today... I had a quick look at the debug log, it looks like there
> indeed is a shutdown issue.
> 

Do you think you can get it fixed in 4.5.4? I would be pleased to test 
patches...


> Out of curiosity, would you be willing to test a current (v5) devel
>  version? 

As this is at a customers system I can do only a short test to see whether it 
works or not.


>  I am currently working on an enhanced queue engine, which has
>  been greatly simplified and speeded up. During that work, I notice that
>  there exist some potential issue in v4, that I had thought to not surface
>  in practice. Queue shutdown is very, very complicated.
> 

I see. Sounds good for future versions....


Are these DA-queuing features are present in the 3.xx version already?
Maybe I should consider using 3.xx the instead if its more robust.

Thanks
-Marc


> Rainer
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> > bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Marc Schiffbauer
> > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:52 PM
> > To: rsyslog-users
> > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog 4.5.x queue file cleanup?
> >
> >
> > Hi Rainer,
> >
> > Am Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2009 16:35:49 schrieb Rainer Gerhards:
> > > > bug?
> > >
> > > Smells like one. I re-checked your config, I think it does not
> >
> > include a
> >
> > > directive to tell the engine to persist messages on shutdown. Even if
> >
> > it
> >
> > >  does not do that, it should clean up the files. A debug log would be
> >
> > most
> >
> > >  useful.
> >
> > I now added "$ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown on" to the configuration. But I
> > still
> > get queuefiles without a .qi file after rsyslog has quit by SIGTERM
> >
> > -Marc
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