From 43ea1899ea60f28e6d8139f53f0b0d6602525512 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan van den Dorpe Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:46:48 +0000 Subject: Update documentation to explain default behaviour of rsyslog::server and suggest alternative --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7d767c8..7985883 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -105,3 +105,10 @@ The following lists all the class parameters this module accepts. Due to a missing feature in current RELP versions (InputRELPServerBindRuleset option), remote logging is using TCP. You can switch between TCP and UDP. As soon as there is a new RELP version which supports setting Rulesets, I will add support for relp back. + +By default, rsyslog::server will strip numbers from hostnames. This means the logs of +multiple servers with the same non-numerical name will be aggregrated in a single +directory. i.e. www01 www02 and www02 would all log to the www directory. + +To log each host to a seperate directory, set the custom_config parameter to +'rsyslog/server-hostname.conf.erb' -- cgit v1.2.3