[syslog-ng] File source and flow-control question

[Behal, Pavel]

Dear List Members,

I have found syslog-ng really valuable part of operating system, thanks to all. I would like to ask a flow-control related question:

I have tried to use it (2.0.5) also as a collector of events from some log text-files using the file source with follow-freq set. It is working fine. But I have realized, that in case of network problem, the syslog-ng process never stops reading the data. (Yes, this is normal.) It continuously follows the incremented data and everything above volume the of internal line buffer get lost. I hoped, this can be changed using the flow-control flag, but I think the flow-control flag does not affect the file source and it never blocks reading.

Is there any way, how to setup the syslog-ng to stop reading the followed source file when destination is unavailable and continue from last event send after reconnect? Thank you.

Best Regards,

Pavel