[syslog-ng] Regarding flush_timeout option !

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Tue Apr 11 14:04:14 CEST 2006


On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:11 -0400, Arumugam, Rama wrote:
> Hi, 
> We're trying to use syslog-ng to log messages in an application. I'm
> trying to use sync option to buffer  
> some messages and then flushing but I would like to use a combination
> of flushing based on the number of messages 
> and time. I found out there's an option flush_timeout which does
> timely flushing irrespective of the number of messages 
> specified with sync option but that option doesn't seem to work with
> my version of syslog-ng 1.6.9. 
> Does anybody have any idea which version of syslog-ng support this
> option or is there any other equivalent option ? 

It is a feature in the current development releases (1.9.x), so you need
that version to use it. It is in feature freeze right now, and seems to
be reasonably stable.

-- 
Bazsi



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