[syslog-ng] syslog-ng buffer and reload

[Fabien Wernli]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:19:39AM +0200, Budai, László wrote:
> no, I like your idea :)
> If it's not a problem to stop syslog-ng then drop some messages from the
> diskqueue and then start syslog-ng.

What about:

    # disables queue but does not remove file
    #   e.g. by doing `mv syslog-ng-00000.qf syslog-ng-00000.qf.disabled`
    syslog-ng-ctl --mv-away-queue --reload

    # syslog-ng continues immediately with an empty queue
    #   so sysadmin has time to curate the queue file

    # offline work on disabled queue file
    syslog-ng --cli-mode [… do some queue filtering on syslog-ng-00000.qf.disabled…]

    # now we're happy with old queue, tell running syslog-ng to process it
    syslog-ng-ctl --process-old-queue=syslog-ng-00000.qf.disabled

Would that be doable?