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rsyslog for Debian
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Configuration file(s)
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The default configuration file for rsyslog is /etc/rsyslog.conf.
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Its format is based on the standard syslog.conf format. As rsyslog
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has a lot more advanced features than sysklogd, it extends this format
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with special configuration directives which all start with the '$'
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prefix. See the rsyslogd(8) and rsyslog.conf(5) man pages for further
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information or install the rsyslog-doc package which provides much
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more detailed documentation.
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The Debian default configuration for rsyslog uses:
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$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
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That means, all configuration files in /etc/rsyslog.d/ with a .conf file
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extension are read by rsyslog. This way the rsyslog configuration can be
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extended easily (either by package maintainers or local administrators).
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Log rotation
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Rsyslog uses the logrotate(8) utilitiy to rotate the standard Debian
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log files. The configuration file can be found at
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/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog.
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The rotation cycle starts with .1, as this is the logrotate default.
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In contrast to sysklogd, which starts with .0.
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When upgrading from sysklogd, the postinst script will automatically
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rotate the existing standard Debian log files, if it is safe to do so
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(i.e. only if .0 is newer than .1).
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Logging to xconsole
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The default rsyslog configuration no longer forwards any log messages to
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/dev/xconsole. It is simple to re-enable support for xconsole though. For that,
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the rsyslog package ships example files in /usr/share/doc/rsyslog/examples.
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To create the /dev/xconsole pipe, copy examples/tmpfiles.d/xconsole.conf to
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/etc/tmpfiles.d/ and then run "systemd-tmpfiles --create xconsole.conf".
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And finally copy examples/rsyslog.d/xconsole.conf to /etc/rsyslog.d/ and
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restart the rsyslog service.
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