On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 15:23 -0500, Joe Shaw wrote:
Hi,
I couldn't find this anywhere in the online docs. What's the behavior of syslog-ng OSE when a file which is being followed with follow_freq() is renamed?
It will be read until EOF, and then if a new file happens to be there at the same location, syslog-ng starts reading the new file. e.g. it handles rotated logfiles just fine. Although I don't know if this is your intention or not.
Thanks, Joe
P.S. From a git checkout of 3.0, doc/reference doesn't exist... is it gone, or does it get pulled from somewhere else when a tarball is built?
As far as I know the tarball does not contain the documentation either. It is currently maintained completely separately from syslog-ng, but the documentation team, thus the authentic source for syslog-ng documentation is at http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/. It is available in both HTML and PDF format under Creative Commons. Also, I can create a public git repository of the documentation if someone is willing to contribute patches :) I might add some script magic to add the documentation when I build the tarball, but I haven't done that yet. -- Bazsi