[syslog-ng] unidirectional unix-stream

[Jim Hendrick]

I wonder - would there be value to be able to see the returned data?

Maybe as an option to populate a macro with this data.

Just thinking that there might be useful information coming back on the
socket in some cases.

Jim

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:54 AM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I can agree that this should be an option, but I didnt get around to
> implement this.
>
> We actually process the input right now, but instead of simply terminating
> the connnection we should just read and ignore it.
>
> On May 9, 2017 2:33 PM, "Fabien Wernli" <wernli at in2p3.fr> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:04:34PM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
>> > Syslog-ng doesnt expect data on the socket on the reverse direction and
>> > shuts down the connection if anything is received.
>> >
>> > It is meant to work with /dev/log like devices.
>> >
>> > I was wondering if it's correct to ignore the reverse direction, is it?
>>
>> Would you agree to change the behaviour?
>> I don't think it would break existing behaviour (only unexpectedly repair
>> things :))
>>
>>
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