Imported Upstream version 3.16.1upstream/3.16.1

author: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> 2008-05-03 09:59:54 +0200
committer: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> 2008-05-03 09:59:54 +0200
commit: 24b3073e74d910f3c45ccfb1ad56c8e601eb2bc7 (patch)
tree: 93dad4af1ef471584f16db99a8a5b53fd2a259df /doc
parent: d7b2091ccb935f85ad5ad43e8fb1d467ff63f979 (diff)
download: rsyslog-24b3073e74d910f3c45ccfb1ad56c8e601eb2bc7.tar.gz
6 files changed, 123 insertions, 133 deletions
diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am
index aa4e8a7..c1d41cf 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc/Makefile.am
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ html_files = \
 	rsyslog_php_syslog_ng.html \
 	rsyslog_recording_pri.html \
 	rsyslog_stunnel.html \
-	status.html \
 	syslog-protocol.html \
 	version_naming.html \
 	contributors.html \
diff --git a/doc/Makefile.in b/doc/Makefile.in
index ed21b20..c5d223e 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile.in
+++ b/doc/Makefile.in
@@ -94,7 +94,10 @@ PACKAGE_STRING = @PACKAGE_STRING@
 PACKAGE_TARNAME = @PACKAGE_TARNAME@
 PACKAGE_VERSION = @PACKAGE_VERSION@
 PATH_SEPARATOR = @PATH_SEPARATOR@
+PKG_CONFIG = @PKG_CONFIG@
 RANLIB = @RANLIB@
+RELP_CFLAGS = @RELP_CFLAGS@
+RELP_LIBS = @RELP_LIBS@
 SED = @SED@
 SET_MAKE = @SET_MAKE@
 SHELL = @SHELL@
@@ -154,8 +157,6 @@ program_transform_name = @program_transform_name@
 psdir = @psdir@
 pthreads_cflags = @pthreads_cflags@
 pthreads_libs = @pthreads_libs@
-relp_cflags = @relp_cflags@
-relp_libs = @relp_libs@
 rfc3195_cflags = @rfc3195_cflags@
 rfc3195_libs = @rfc3195_libs@
 rt_libs = @rt_libs@
@@ -193,7 +194,6 @@ html_files = \
 	rsyslog_php_syslog_ng.html \
 	rsyslog_recording_pri.html \
 	rsyslog_stunnel.html \
-	status.html \
 	syslog-protocol.html \
 	version_naming.html \
 	contributors.html \
diff --git a/doc/manual.html b/doc/manual.html
index 9d4dbef..3792fad 100644
--- a/doc/manual.html
+++ b/doc/manual.html
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
-<html><head><title>rsyslog documentation</title>
-</head>
+<html><head><title>rsyslog documentation</title></head>
 <body>
 <h1>RSyslog - Documentation</h1>
 <p><b><a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/">Rsyslog</a>
@@ -17,10 +16,10 @@ relay chains while at the same time being very easy to setup for the
 novice user. And as we know what enterprise users really need, there is
 also <a href="professional_support.html">professional
 rsyslog support</a> available directly from the source!</p>
-<p><b>This documentation is for version 3.14.2 of rsyslog.</b>
+<p><b>This documentation is for version 3.16.1 (v3-stable branch) of rsyslog.</b>
 Visit the <i> <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-status.html">rsyslog status page</a></i></b> to obtain current
 version information and project status.
-<p><b>If you like rsyslog, you might
+</p><p><b>If you like rsyslog, you might
 want to lend us a helping hand. </b>It doesn't require a lot of
 time - even a single mouse click helps. Learn <a href="how2help.html">how to help the rsyslog project</a>.
 Due to popular demand, there is now a <a href="rsyslog_ng_comparison.html">side-by-side comparison
@@ -64,10 +63,9 @@ php-syslog-ng with rsyslog</a></li>
 <li><a href="rsyslog_recording_pri.html">recording
 the syslog priority (severity and facility) to the log file</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/Article19.phtml">preserving
-syslog sender over NAT</a> (online only)</li>
+syslog sender over NAT</a> (online only)</li><li><a href="gssapi.html">an overview and howto of rsyslog gssapi support</a></li>
 <li><a href="debug.html">debug support in rsyslog</a></li>
-<li><a href="dev_queue.html">the rsyslog message
-queue object</a></li>
+<li><a href="dev_queue.html">the rsyslog message queue object</a></li>
 </ul>
 <p>Our <a href="history.html">rsyslog history</a>
 page is for you if you would like to learn a little more
@@ -99,5 +97,9 @@ mailing list</a>. If you are interested in the "backstage", you
 may find
 <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer</a>'s
 <a href="http://rgerhards.blogspot.com/">blog</a> an
-interesting read (filter on syslog and rsyslog tags).</p>
+interesting read (filter on syslog and rsyslog tags).
+If you would like to use rsyslog source code inside your open source project, you can do that without
+any restriction as long as your license is GPLv3 compatible. If your license is incompatible to GPLv3,
+you may even be still permitted to use rsyslog source code. However, then you need to look at the way
+<a href="licensing.html">rsyslog is licensed</a>.</p>
 </body></html>
diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html
index 5931a24..2a0f0c6 100644
--- a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html
+++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ number of modules. Here is the entry point to their documentation and
 what they do (list is currently not complete)</p>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="omsnmp.html">omsnmp</a> - SNMP
-trap output module</li><li>omrelp - RELP output module</li>
+trap output module</li><li><a href="omrelp.html">omrelp</a> - RELP output module</li>
 <li>omgss - output module for GSS-enabled syslog</li>
 <li>ommysql - output module for MySQL</li>
 <li>ompgsql - output module for PostgreSQL</li>
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ trap output module</li><li>omrelp - RELP output module</li>
 generic database output module (Firebird/Interbase, MS SQL, Sybase,
 SQLLite, Ingres, Oracle, mSQL)</li>
 <li><a href="imfile.html">imfile</a>
--&nbsp; input module for text files</li><li>imrelp - RELP input module</li>
+-&nbsp; input module for text files</li><li><a href="imrelp.html">imrelp</a> - RELP input module</li>
 <li>imudp - udp syslog message input</li>
 <li><a href="imtcp.html">imtcp</a> - input
 plugin for plain tcp syslog</li>
diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_ng_comparison.html b/doc/rsyslog_ng_comparison.html
index 547501a..2a1d15b 100644
--- a/doc/rsyslog_ng_comparison.html
+++ b/doc/rsyslog_ng_comparison.html
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
 <html><head>
-<meta content="de" http-equiv="Content-Language"><title>rsyslog vs. syslog-ng - a comparison</title></head>
+<meta content="de" http-equiv="Content-Language"><title>rsyslog vs. syslog-ng - a comparison</title>
+
+</head>
 <body>
 <h1>rsyslog vs. syslog-ng</h1>
 <p><small><i>Written by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a>
@@ -25,56 +27,72 @@ comparison sheet, so please don't be shy ;)</p>
 <td valign="top"><b>rsyslog</b></td>
 <td valign="top"><b>syslog-ng</b></td>
 </tr>
-
-
 <tr>
-<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br><b>Input Sources</b><br></td>
+<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br>
+<b>Input Sources</b><br>
+</td>
 </tr>
-<tr><td valign="top">UNIX domain socket</td>
+<tr>
+<td valign="top">UNIX domain socket</td>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">yes</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">UDP</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">yes</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">TCP</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">yes</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td valign="top"><a href="http://www.librelp.com">RELP</a></td>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td valign="top">no</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">RFC 3195/BEEP</td>
 <td valign="top">yes (needs separate build process)</td>
-<td valign="top">no</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">no</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">kernel log</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">yes</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">file</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">yes</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
-<td valign="top">mark message generator as an optional input</td>
+<td valign="top">mark message generator as an
+optional input</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">no (?)</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">no (?)</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">Windows Event Log</td>
 <td valign="top">via <a href="http://www.eventreporter.com">EventReporter</a>
 or <a href="http://www.mwagent.com">MonitorWare Agent</a>
 (both commercial software)</td>
-<td valign="top">via separate Windows agent, paid edition only</td>
+<td valign="top">via separate Windows agent, paid
+edition only</td>
 </tr>
-
-
 <tr>
-<td colspan="3" valign="top"><b><br>Network (Protocol) Support</b><br></td>
+<td colspan="3" valign="top"><b><br>
+Network (Protocol) Support</b><br>
+</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">support for (plain) tcp based syslog</td>
@@ -104,6 +122,11 @@ based framing on syslog/tcp connections</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
+<td valign="top">syslog over RELP<br>this is a truely reliable solution (plain tcp syslog can lose messages!)</td>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td valign="top">no</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
 <td valign="top">on the wire (zlib) message
 compression</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
@@ -146,38 +169,46 @@ hostname in NAT environments and relay chains</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
 </tr>
-
-
 <tr>
-<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br><b>Message Filtering</b><br></td>
+<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br>
+<b>Message Filtering</b><br>
+</td>
 </tr>
-<tr><td valign="top">Filtering for syslog facility and priority</td>
+<tr>
+<td valign="top">Filtering for syslog facility and
+priority</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">yes</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">Filtering for hostname</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">yes</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">Filtering for application</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">yes</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">Filtering for message contents</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">yes</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">Filtering for sending IP address</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">yes</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
-<td valign="top">ability to filter on any other message
-field  not mentioned above
+<td valign="top">ability to filter on any other
+message
+field not mentioned above
 (including substrings and the like)</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
 <td valign="top">no</td>
@@ -210,8 +241,9 @@ in filters</td>
 <td valign="top">support for discarding messages
 based on filters</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">yes</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">powerful BSD-style hostname and
 program name blocks for easy multi-host support</td>
@@ -223,10 +255,10 @@ program name blocks for easy multi-host support</td>
 <td></td>
 <td></td>
 </tr>
-
-
 <tr>
-<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br><b>Supported Database Outputs</b><br></td>
+<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br>
+<b>Supported Database Outputs</b><br>
+</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">MySQL</td>
@@ -274,10 +306,10 @@ program name blocks for easy multi-host support</td>
 <td valign="top">yes (<a href="omlibdbi.html">omlibdbi</a>)</td>
 <td valign="top">no (?)</td>
 </tr>
-
-
 <tr>
-<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br><b>Enterprise Features</b><br></td>
+<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br>
+<b>Enterprise Features</b><br>
+</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">support for on-demand on-disk
@@ -292,7 +324,8 @@ by spool files</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td valign="top">each action can use its own, independant
+<td valign="top">each action can use its own,
+independant
 set of spool files</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
 <td valign="top">no</td>
@@ -314,10 +347,10 @@ syslog/database servers </td>
 <td><a href="professional_support.html">yes</a></td>
 <td>yes</td>
 </tr>
-
-
 <tr>
-<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br><b>Config File</b><br></td>
+<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br>
+<b>Config File</b><br>
+</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">config file format</td>
@@ -338,37 +371,40 @@ existing in a specific directory</td>
 <td height="25" valign="top">yes</td>
 <td height="25" valign="top">no</td>
 </tr>
-
-
-
 <tr>
-<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br><b>Extensibility</b><br></td>
+<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br>
+<b>Extensibility</b><br>
+</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td valign="top">Functionality split in separately loadable
+<td valign="top">Functionality split in separately
+loadable
 modules</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
 <td valign="top">no</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-<td valign="top">Support for third-party input plugins</td>
+<td valign="top">Support for third-party input
+plugins</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
 <td valign="top">no</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 </tr>
-<tr><td valign="top">Support for third-party output plugins</td>
+<tr>
+<td valign="top">Support for third-party output
+plugins</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
 <td valign="top">no</td>
 </tr>
-
-
-
 <tr>
-<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br><b>Other Features</b><br></td>
+<td colspan="3" valign="top"><br>
+<b>Other Features</b><br>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-</tr><tr>
 <td valign="top">ability to generate file names and
 directories (log targets) dynamically</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
@@ -440,8 +476,9 @@ reduction ("last message repeated n times") on a per selector-line basis</td>
 <td valign="top">supports multiple actions per
 selector/filter condition</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
-<td valign="top">yes</td><td>
-</td></tr>
+<td valign="top">yes</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">web interface</td>
 <td valign="top"><a href="http://www.phplogcon.org">phpLogCon</a><br>
@@ -469,8 +506,11 @@ system stress</td>
 <tr>
 <td height="43" valign="top">flow control
 (slow down message reception when system is busy)</td>
-<td height="43" valign="top">yes (advanced, with multiple ways to slow down inputs depending on individual input capabilities, based on watermarks)</td>
-<td height="43" valign="top">yes (limited? "stops accepting messages")</td>
+<td height="43" valign="top">yes (advanced,
+with multiple ways to slow down inputs depending on individual input
+capabilities, based on watermarks)</td>
+<td height="43" valign="top">yes (limited?
+"stops accepting messages")</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">rewriting messages</td>
@@ -504,8 +544,6 @@ Solaris; compilation and basic testing done on HP UX</td>
 <td valign="top">no</td>
 <td valign="top">yes</td>
 </tr>
-
-
 </tbody>
 </table>
 <p>While the <span style="font-weight: bold;">rsyslog</span>
diff --git a/doc/status.html b/doc/status.html
deleted file mode 100644
index d7111a5..0000000
--- a/doc/status.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
-<html><head><title>rsyslog status page</title></head>
-<body>
-<h2>rsyslog status page</h2>
-<p>This page reflects the status as of 2008-04-04.</p>
-<h2>Current Releases</h2>
-
-<p><b>development:</b> 3.15.0 -
-<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/Article203.phtml">change log</a> -
-<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/Downloads-index-req-getit-lid-93.phtml">download</a></p>
-
-<p><b>v3 stable:</b> 3.14.0 - <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/Article205.phtml">change log</a> -
-<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/Downloads-index-req-getit-lid-94.phtml">download</a>
-
-<br><b>v2 stable:</b> 2.0.4 - <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/Article197.phtml">change log</a> -
-<a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/Downloads-index-req-getit-lid-90.phtml">download</a>
-<br>v0 and v1 are depricated and no longer supported. If you absolutely do not like to
-upgrade, you may consider purchasing a
-<a href="professional_support.html">commercial rsyslog support package</a>. Just let us point
-out that it is really not a good idea to still run a v0 version.
-
-<p><a href="v3compatibility.html">If you updgrade from version 2, be sure to read the rsyslog v3
-compatibility document.</a></p>
-<p>(<a href="version_naming.html">How are versions named?</a>)</p>
-
-<h2>Platforms</h2>
-<p>Thankfully, a number of folks have begin to build packages and
-help port rsyslog to other platforms. As such,
-<a href="http://wiki.rsyslog.com/index.php/Platforms">the
-platform list is now maintained inside the rsyslog wiki</a>.
-Platform maintainers perhaps have posted extra information there. If
-you do platform-specific work, feel free to add information to the wiki.</p>
-<p>Rsyslog is the default syslogd in Fedora 8 and above.</p>
-<h2>Additional information</h2>
-<p><b>Currently supported features are listed on the <a href="features.html">rsyslog features page</a>.</b></p>
-<ul>
-<li>The rsyslog home page is <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com">www.rsyslog.com</a>.</li>
-<li>Mailing list info can be found at <a href="http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog">http://lists.adiscon.com/rsyslog</a>.</li>
-<li>The change log can be found at <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/Topic4.phtml">
-http://www.rsyslog.com/Topic4.phtml</a>. </li>
-<li>Online documentation is available at <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/doc">http://www.rsyslog.com/doc</a>.</li>
-<li>You may also find <a href="http://rgerhards.blogspot.com/">Rainer's blog</a>
-an interesting read.</li>
-</ul>
-<p>The project was initiated in 2003 and seriouosly begun in 2004 by
-<a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a>
-and is currently being maintained by him. See the <a href="history.html">history page</a> for more
-background information.</p>
-</body></html>
author	Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>	2008-05-03 09:59:54 +0200
committer	Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>	2008-05-03 09:59:54 +0200
commit	24b3073e74d910f3c45ccfb1ad56c8e601eb2bc7 (patch)
tree	93dad4af1ef471584f16db99a8a5b53fd2a259df /doc
parent	d7b2091ccb935f85ad5ad43e8fb1d467ff63f979 (diff)
download	rsyslog-24b3073e74d910f3c45ccfb1ad56c8e601eb2bc7.tar.gz