I ventured to write this book in English because … it will be more easily read in poor English, than in good German by 90% of my intended readers. — HANS J. STETTER, Analysis of Discretization Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations (1973) There is not much I could add to Mr. Stetter’s thought, except, maybe, […]
What this book is about
This book offers a cookbook-approach to configuring rsyslog. While the official documentation focusses on concepts, components and configuration statements, this book takes a completely different approach. It will not tell you about rsyslog concepts. Instead, it will offer a wide-range of recipies for configuring rsyslog so that it performs some specific task. The individual recipies […]
Assumed Standard rsyslog.conf
When I initially started to write this book, I provided only excerpts of rsyslog.conf that showed which lines you had to add. Quickly, I received feedback that this is inadequate to make the recipies easy to use – because everyone still needed to guess where to place the excerpts. Or, even worse, place them at […]