rsyslog

High-performance log ingestion and ETL engine

rsyslog

High-performance log ingestion and ETL engine

Changelog for 6.1.4 (devel)

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Version 6.1.4 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-02-18

  • bugfix/omhdfs: directive $OMHDFSFileName rendered unusable
    due to a search and replace-induced bug ;)
  • bugfix: minor race condition in action.c – considered cosmetic
    This is considered cosmetic as multiple threads tried to write exactly
    the same value into the same memory location without sync. The method
    has been changed so this can no longer happen.
  • added pmsnare parser module (written by David Lang)
  • enhanced imfile to support non-cancel input termination
  • improved systemd socket activation thanks to Marius Tomaschweski
  • improved error reporting for $WorkDirectory
    non-existance and other detectable problems are now reported,
    and the work directory is NOT set in this case
  • bugfix: pmsnare causded abort under some conditions
  • bugfix: abort if imfile reads file line of more than 64KiB
    Thanks to Peter Eisentraut for reporting and analysing this problem.
    bug tracker: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221
  • bugfix: queue engine did not properly slow down inputs in FULL_DELAY mode
    when in disk-assisted mode. This especially affected imfile, which
    created unnecessarily queue files if a large set of input file data was
    to process.
  • bugfix: very long running actions could prevent shutdown under some
    circumstances. This has now been solved, at least for common
    situations.
  • bugfix: fixed compile problem due to empty structs
    this occured only on some platforms/compilers. thanks to Dražen Kačar
    for the fix

Changelog for 5.7.4 (v5-beta)

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Version 5.7.4 [V5-BETA] (rgerhards), 2011-02-17

  • added pmsnare parser module (written by David Lang)
  • enhanced imfile to support non-cancel input termination
  • improved systemd socket activation thanks to Marius Tomaschweski
  • improved error reporting for $WorkDirectory
    non-existance and other detectable problems are now reported,
    and the work directory is NOT set in this case
  • bugfix: pmsnare causded abort under some conditions
  • bugfix: abort if imfile reads file line of more than 64KiB
    Thanks to Peter Eisentraut for reporting and analysing this problem.
    bug tracker: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221
  • bugfix: queue engine did not properly slow down inputs in FULL_DELAY mode
    when in disk-assisted mode. This especially affected imfile, which
    created unnecessarily queue files if a large set of input file data was
    to process.
  • bugfix: very long running actions could prevent shutdown under some
    circumstances. This has now been solved, at least for common
    situations.
  • bugfix: fixed compile problem due to empty structs
    this occured only on some platforms/compilers. thanks to Dražen Kačar
    for the fix

CentOS 5: how to compile rsyslog from git

Rainer GerhardsFAQ

If you compile rsyslog from git on CentOS 5 you run into the trouble that

autoreconf -fvi

fails, telling you that autotools 2.59 provided by CentOS is too old.

The solution to this problem is to install version 2.61 of autotools. You will probably not want to overwrite the default CentOS package, so you should install it in some alternate location (e.g. /opt) and include that location in the topmost spot of your path. all this can be done as follows:

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.61.tar.bz2
tar xjf autoconf-2.61.tar.bz2
cd autoconf-2.61
./configure --prefix=/opt
make
sudo make install

Then, you need to change your path, for example as follows (this is obviously a temporary alteration!):

export PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH

After these changes, you should be able to run autoreconf for rsyslog.

Changelog for 5.7.3 (v5-beta)

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Version 5.7.3 [V5-BETA] (rgerhards), 2011-02-07

  • added support for processing multi-line messages in imfile
    thanks to David Lang for implementing this
  • added $IMUDPSchedulingPolicy and $IMUDPSchedulingPriority config settings
  • added $LocalHostName config directive
  • bugfix: fixed build problems on some platforms
    namely those that have 32bit atomic operations but not 64 bit ones
  • bugfix: local hostname was pulled too-early, so that some config
    directives (namely FQDN settings) did not have any effect
  • bugfix: imfile did duplicate messages under some circumstances
  • added $OMMySQLConfigFile config directive
  • added $OMMySQLConfigSection config directive
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