Great, looks like in the next week or so I should be able to get out a first draft of teh manual.. The fun part will come with getting examples etc.. Cheers, Bret Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu> 09/11/2001 04:51 Sent by: syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu Please respond to syslog-ng To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu cc: (bcc: WATSON Bret/Mgr/CSM/ST Group) Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]Documentation/manual etc.. On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:09:44AM +0800, bretwatson@charteredsemi.com wrote:

Hi Baltasar, some questions on the options list....

I've dug through the cfg-lex.l file and found it is looking for a bunch of options - some of which exist int eh current docs.. so some questions:

What does "Keep_hostname" do?

to not touch the hostname part of the received message, and leave it intact.

is "use_fqdn" the same as "long_hostnames"?

no, long_hostnames is an alias to chain_hostnames, the latter being the preferred one. (this ambiguity caused me to change it) use_fqdn means to use fully qualified domain names, otherwise the domain is chopped after the first '.' character in the hostname.

What does "gc_threshold" do?

gc_threshold is the same as gc_busy_threshold

What does "create_dir" do?

if macro expansion is used in destination filenames, directory references to non-existing directories can be made, if create_dir is true, those directories are automatically created.

and what about the following? are any enabled? localip, ip, localport, port, destport, owner, group, perm, dir_owner, dir_group, dir_perm, keep-alive, keep_alive, max-connections, mac, authentication, encrypt, required, allow, deny. compress

mac, authentication, encrypt and compress each accept one of triple as argument: required, allow or deny, though none of these are currently implemented. All the other options are (or supposed to be ) working: localip & localport: specifies the source ip & port of a connection (before connection is made, useful if your box has several IPs) ip means localip for sources destport: specifies the destination port for destinations owner, group, perm: file permission information for created files dir_owner, dir_group, dir_perm: directory permission information for created dirs keep-alive, keep_alive: do not drop connections when the config is reloaded max-connections: how many concurrent connections are permitted at a time -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1 _______________________________________________ syslog-ng maillist - syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng