rsyslog

how to look up which files a certain process is manipulating?

In my case it's "rsyslogd", I find it's consuming up to 170M memory,which is too much, and I've checked its configuration file located at /etc/rsyslog.conf and then checked each file written inside it, but in vain. How can I look up the file it's currently manipulating and look inside what's going on? [root@slvdb2 log]# lsof -p `pi...

Eficient logging of stdin with rsyslog

Hello, Our environment: CentOS 5, which comes with Apache 2.2 and rsyslog 2.0.6 In order to send Apache 2.2 error log we followed instructions found on the here: http://wiki.rsyslog.com/index.php/Working_Apache_and_Rsyslog_configuration It works, but the included perl script is very inefficient - it takes huge part of the system resou...

subprocess loops forever

I'm trying to start/stop rsyslog through a python script: RSYSLOG_INIT_SCRIPT='/etc/init.s/rsyslogd' subprocess.call([RSYSLOG_INIT_SCRIPT,'stop']) /etc/init.d/rsyslogd is a regular init script. The problem is that it continues executing this script again and again. (I've added an echo to the script to confirm this). This is the stackt...

rsyslog server on windows

Is rsyslog server available on Windows? ...

Rsyslog to get logs from one machine to another

Hi I am very new to this... please help me configure rsyslog to get log from one machine to another machine. I am trying to get the log files from multiple systems to a base system. I have installed rsyslog on Ubuntu and tried configuring it But it did not work ...

Syslog custom priorities

Is there a way one can use custom priorities in syslog daemon or rsyslog daemon? i.e. i am unable to locate a configuration change which achives it.. the other thing i can do is perhaps play with it's source. Cheers! ...