rsyslog

Version 7.2.7 [v7-stable] 2013-04-17

• rsyslogd startup information is now properly conveyed back to init
  when privileges are beging dropped
  Actually, we have moved termination of the parent in front of the
  priv drop. So it shall work now in all cases. See code comments in
  commit for more details.
• If forking, the parent now waits for a maximum of 60 seconds for
  termination by the child
• improved debugging support in forked (auto-backgrounding) mode
  The rsyslog debug log file is now continued to be written across the
  fork.
• updated systemd files to match current systemd source
• bugfix: failover/action suspend did not work correctly
  This was experienced if the retry action took more than one second
  to complete. For suspending, a cached timestamp was used, and if the
  retry took longer, that timestamp was already in the past. As a
  result, the action never was kept in suspended state, and as such
  no failover happened. The suspend functionalit now does no longer use
  the cached timestamp (should not have any performance implication, as
  action suspend occurs very infrequently).
• bugfix: nested if/prifilt conditions did not work properly
  closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415
• bugfix: script == comparison did not work properly on JSON objects
  [backport from 7.3 branch]
• bugfix: imudp scheduling parameters did affect main thread, not imudp
  closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=409
• bugfix: imuxsock rate-limiting could not be configured via legacy conf
  Rate-limiting for the system socket could not be configured via legacy
  configuration directives. However, the new-style RainerScript config
  options worked.
  Thanks to Milan Bartos for the patch.
  closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390
• bugfix: using group resolution could lead to endless loop
  Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
  closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=310
• bugfix: $mmnormalizeuseramsg paramter was specified with wrong type
  Thank to Renzhong Zhang for alerting us of the problem.
  closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=420
• bugfix: RainerScript getenv() function caused segfault when var was
  not found.
  Thanks to Philippe Muller for the patch.
• bugfix: several issues in imkmsg
  see bug tracker: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=421#c8
• bugfix: imuxsock was missing SysSock.ParseTrusted module parameter
  To use that functionality, legacy rsyslog.conf syntax had to be used.
  Also, the doc was missing information on the “ParseTrusted” set of
  config directives.
• bugfix: parameter action.execOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended was accidently
  of integer-type. For obvious reasons, it needs to be boolean. Note
  that this change can break existing configurations if they circumvented
  the problem by using 0/1 values.
• doc bugfix: rsyslog.conf man page had invalid file format info