This was a complex manual merge, especially in action.c. So if
there occur some problems, this would be a good point to start
troubleshooting. I run a couple of tests before commiting and
they all went well.
Conflicts:
action.c
action.h
runtime/queue.c
runtime/queue.h
runtime/wti.c
runtime/wti.h
- added $GenerateConfigGraph configuration command which can be used
to generate nice-looking (and very informative) rsyslog configuration
graphs.
- added $ActionName configuration directive (currently only used for
graph generation, but may find other uses)
This is more efficient for some outputs. They new can receive fields not only
as a single string but rather in an array where each string is seperated.
Unfortunatley, I do not have the full list of contributors
available. The patch set was compiled by Ben Taylor, and I made
some further changes to adopt it to the news rsyslog branch. Others
provided much of the base work, but I can not find the names of the
original authors. If you happen to be one of them, please let me
know so that I can give proper credits.
so that the "last message repeated n times" messages, if generated, may
have an alternate format that contains the message that is being repeated.
Note that this is on an action-by-action basis.
... but did not manage to avoid doing at least one call. So
this change introduced performance benefit only in a few
non-common situations. Anyhow, it hopefully levels ground
for better things to come.
This also lead to the addition of two new config directives:
$ActionExecOnlyEveryNthTime and $ActionExecOnlyEveryNthTimeTimeout
This feature is useful, for example, for alerting: it permits you to
send an alert only after at least n occurences of a specific message
have been seen by rsyslogd. This protectes against false positives
due to waiting for additional confirmation.
initialization now takes place in message processing. This works much
better with the new queued action mode (fast startup)
- fixed a newly introduced bug that caused output module's doAction entry
point to be called on more than one thread under some circumstances
