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authorMichael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>2011-08-30 23:48:03 +0200
committerMichael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>2011-08-30 23:48:03 +0200
commitb9d0478eeb8b4f175704e012fcc06069b10e2553 (patch)
tree0be0af26b2ba76e79ae49f562852ef854393f74f /tools
parent6b2af45bc8b2aa4292e3cf92986c01a728ef4d8c (diff)
downloadrsyslog-b9d0478eeb8b4f175704e012fcc06069b10e2553.tar.gz
Imported Upstream version 5.8.4upstream/5.8.4
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/Makefile.in1
-rw-r--r--tools/rsyslog.conf.516
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/tools/Makefile.in b/tools/Makefile.in
index b4532e4..29a5bda 100644
--- a/tools/Makefile.in
+++ b/tools/Makefile.in
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ libdir = @libdir@
libexecdir = @libexecdir@
localedir = @localedir@
localstatedir = @localstatedir@
+lt_ECHO = @lt_ECHO@
mandir = @mandir@
mkdir_p = @mkdir_p@
moddirs = @moddirs@
diff --git a/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 b/tools/rsyslog.conf.5
index e17da97..6ce3c0e 100644
--- a/tools/rsyslog.conf.5
+++ b/tools/rsyslog.conf.5
@@ -272,14 +272,16 @@ Please note that rsyslogd offers a variety of options in regarding to remote
forwarding. For full details, please see the html documentation.
.SS List of users
-Usually critical messages are also directed to ``root'' on that machine. You can specify a list
-of users that shall get the message by simply writing the login. You may specify more than one
-user by separating them with commas (','). If they're logged in they get the message. Don't
-think a mail would be sent, that might be too late.
+Usually critical messages are also directed to ``root'' on that machine. You
+can specify a list
+of users that shall get the message by simply writing ":omusrmsg:" followed
+by the login name. You may specify more than one
+user by separating them with commas (','). If they're logged in they
+get the message (for example: ":omusrmsg:root,user1,user2").
.SS Everyone logged on
Emergency messages often go to all users currently online to notify them that something strange
-is happening with the system. To specify this wall(1)-feature use an asterisk ('*').
+is happening with the system. To specify this wall(1)-feature use an ":omusrmsg:*".
.SS Database table
This allows logging of the message to a database table.
@@ -558,10 +560,10 @@ that space.
Keep in mind that $outchannel just defines a channel with "name". It does not activate it.
To do so, you must use a selector line (see below). That selector line includes the channel
-name plus an $ sign in front of it. A sample might be:
+name plus ":omfile:$" in front of it. A sample might be:
.sp
.RS
-*.* $mychannel
+*.* :omfile:$mychannel
.RE
.SH PROPERTY REPLACER