rsyslog bugs and annoyances

This page lists the known bugs rsyslog has to offer.  It lists old and esoteric bugs. A live list of bugs is contained in our bugzilla. Please visit http://www.rsyslog.com/bugs to see what we have. There, you can also open your own bug report if you think you found one.

This list has last been updated on 2008-02-12 by Rainer Gerhards.

rsyslogd

EQUALLY-NAMED TEMPLATES

If multiple templates with the SAME name are created, all but the first definition is IGNORED. So you can NOT (yet) replace a template definition. I also strongly doubt I will ever support this, because it does not make an awful lot of sense (after all, why not use two template names...).

WALLMSG FORMAT (* selector)

This format is actually not 100% compatible with stock syslogd - the date is missing. Will be fixed soon and can also be fixed just via the proper template. Anyone up for this? ;)

MULTIPLE INSTANCES

If multiple instances are running on a single machine, the one with the -r switch must start first. Also, UDP-based syslog forwarding between the instances does not work. Use TCP instead.