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--- rsyslog/tools/rsyslogd.8 Mon Apr 18 06:36:33 2011
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.\" Copyright 2004-2008 Rainer Gerhards and Adiscon for the rsyslog modifications
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.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
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.\"
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-.TH RSYSLOGD 8 "29 July 2008" "Version 3.21.1" "Linux System Administration"
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+.TH RSYSLOGD 1M "16 May 2012" "Version 6.2.0" "System Administration Commands"
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.SH NAME
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rsyslogd \- reliable and extended syslogd
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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unix domain sockets enables this utility to support both local
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and remote logging.
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-.B Note that this version of rsyslog ships with extensive documentation in html format.
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-This is provided in the ./doc subdirectory and probably
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-in a separate package if you installed rsyslog via a packaging system.
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To use rsyslog's advanced features, you
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.B need
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-to look at the html documentation, because the man pages only cover
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+to look at the online documentation, because the man pages only cover
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basic aspects of operation.
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-.B For details and configuration examples, see the rsyslog.conf (5)
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+.B For details and configuration examples, see the rsyslog.conf (4)
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.B man page and the online documentation at http://www.rsyslog.com/doc
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-.BR Rsyslogd (8)
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+.BR rsyslogd (1M)
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is derived from the sysklogd package which in turn is derived from the
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stock BSD sources.
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Avoid auto-backgrounding. This is needed especially if the
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.B rsyslogd
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is started and controlled by
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-.BR init (8).
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+.BR init (1M),
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+which is not the case on Solaris.
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.TP
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.B "\-N " "level"
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Do a coNfig check. Do NOT run in regular mode, just check configuration
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not specifying the -N option at all (so this makes limited sense) and
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1 actually activates the code. Later, higher levels will mean more
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verbosity (this is a forward-compatibility option).
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-.B rsyslogd
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-is started and controlled by
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-.BR init (8).
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.TP
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.BI "\-q " "add hostname if DNS fails during ACL processing"
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During ACL processing, hostnames are resolved to IP addresses for
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operation and should only be done when actually necessary. Actually, it is
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a rsyslgod stop immediately followed by a restart. Future versions will remove
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this restart functionality of HUP (it will go away in v5). So it is advised to use
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-HUP only for closing files, and a "real restart" (e.g. /etc/rc.d/rsyslogd restart)
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+HUP only for closing files, and a "real restart" (e.g. svcadm restart svc:/system/system-log:rsyslog)
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to activate configuration changes.
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.TP
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.B TERM ", " INT ", " QUIT
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The file containing the process id of
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.BR rsyslogd .
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.TP
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-.I prefix/lib/rsyslog
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+.I /usr/lib/rsyslog
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Default directory for
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.B rsyslogd
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-modules. The
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-.I prefix
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-is specified during compilation (e.g. /usr/local).
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+modules.
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.SH ENVIRONMENT
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.TP
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.B RSYSLOG_DEBUG
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.B RSYSLOG_MODDIR
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Provides the default directory in which loadable modules reside.
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.PD
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-.SH BUGS
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-Please review the file BUGS for up-to-date information on known
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-bugs and annoyances.
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.SH Further Information
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Please visit
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.BR http://www.rsyslog.com/doc
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for additional information, tutorials and a support forum.
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+.SH ATTRIBUTES
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+.sp
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+.LP
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+See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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+.sp
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+.sp
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+.TS
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+tab() box;
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+cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i)
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+lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i)
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+.
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+ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
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+_
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+Availabilitypkg:/system/rsyslog
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+_
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+Servicesvc:/system/system-log:rsyslog
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+.TE
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+
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+.SH Solaris Usage
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+The rsyslog instance of the system-log service is not enabled by default.
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+To enable it, first "svcadm disable svc:/system/system-log:default", then
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+"svcadm enable svc:/system/system-log:rsyslog". If you wish to enable log
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+rotation, then add each file referenced in
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+.BR rsyslog.conf(4)
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+to /etc/logadm.conf.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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-.BR rsyslog.conf (5),
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+.BR rsyslog.conf (4),
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.BR logger (1),
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-.BR syslog (2),
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-.BR syslog (3),
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-.BR services (5),
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-.BR savelog (8)
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+.BR syslog (3C),
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+.BR services (4)
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+.BR logadm.conf (4)
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.LP
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.SH COLLABORATORS
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.B rsyslogd
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