[syslog-ng]Documentation/manual etc..
bretwatson@charteredsemi.com
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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
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:09:44AM +0800, bretwatson@charteredsemi.com
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> 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
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Great,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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..</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:09:44AM +0800, bretwatson@charteredsemi.com wrote:<br>
> Hi Baltasar,<br>
> some questions on the options list....<br>
> <br>
> I've dug through the cfg-lex.l file and found it is looking for a bunch of <br>
> options - some of which exist int eh current docs.. so some questions:<br>
> <br>
> What does "Keep_hostname" do?<br>
<br>
to not touch the hostname part of the received message, and leave it intact.<br>
<br>
> is "use_fqdn" the same as "long_hostnames"?<br>
<br>
no, long_hostnames is an alias to chain_hostnames, the latter being the<br>
preferred one. (this ambiguity caused me to change it)<br>
<br>
use_fqdn means to use fully qualified domain names, otherwise the domain is<br>
chopped after the first '.' character in the hostname.<br>
<br>
> What does "gc_threshold" do?<br>
<br>
gc_threshold is the same as gc_busy_threshold<br>
<br>
> What does "create_dir" do?<br>
<br>
if macro expansion is used in destination filenames, directory references to<br>
non-existing directories can be made, if create_dir is true, those<br>
directories are automatically created.<br>
<br>
> <br>
> and what about the following? are any enabled?<br>
> localip, ip, localport, port, destport, owner, group, perm, dir_owner, <br>
> dir_group, dir_perm, keep-alive, keep_alive, max-connections, mac, <br>
> authentication, encrypt, required, allow, deny. compress<br>
<br>
mac, authentication, encrypt and compress each accept one of triple as<br>
argument: required, allow or deny, though none of these are currently<br>
implemented.<br>
<br>
All the other options are (or supposed to be ) working:<br>
<br>
localip & localport: specifies the source ip & port of a connection (before<br>
connection is made, useful if your box has several IPs)<br>
<br>
ip means localip for sources<br>
<br>
destport: specifies the destination port for destinations<br>
<br>
owner, group, perm: file permission information for created files<br>
<br>
dir_owner, dir_group, dir_perm: directory permission information for created dirs<br>
<br>
keep-alive, keep_alive: do not drop connections when the config is reloaded<br>
<br>
max-connections: how many concurrent connections are permitted at a time<br>
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