[rsyslog] rsyslog 5.3.6 (v5-beta) released

[david at lang.hm]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Michael Biebl wrote:

> 2010/1/15 Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com>:
>> 2010/1/15 Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci at p6m7g8.com>:
>>> Michael Biebl wrote:
>>>>> =====
>>>>> :programname, contains, "NetworkManager" /var/log/NetworkManager.log
>>>>> ~
>>>>> :programname, contains, "wpa_supplicant" /var/log/NetworkManager.log
>>>>> ~
>>>>> =====
>>>
>>> 1) rsyslogd always pukes on itself if the config file doesn't parse.
>>>    not new.
>>>
>>> 2) Its documented that selectors syntax is not a stable API / config
>>> file syntax, though, the maintainer should have noted it in UPDATING.
>>> I would have hit this tomorrow myself.
>>>
>>
>> You forgot the part, where I said that I remove those lines and
>> rsyslog still doesn't log anything.
>
> And the fact that if it fails to parse, it should complain loudly and
> not fail silently.

unfortunantly in my experiance it doesn't complain loudly :-(

in V5 there is a new option to tell it to exit if it can't read the 
config.

I suspect that the actual config error is significantly earlier in the 
config. One thing that I frequently tripped over when switching back and 
forth was th HUPisRestart option. In V5 that's not a valid option anymore 
and needs to be removed.

can you post your full config?

David Lang

> Anyway, let's see what Rainer has to say.
>
> Michael
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