david at lang
Aug 10, 2012, 5:31 PM
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Re: Turning on compression only for some logfiles?
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It should be a value that you can set and it remains at that value until
you set it to something else.
David Lang
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Chastity Blackwell wrote:
> We're using 5.8 still -- that's the 6.x syntax, correct? Is there a way to do it in 5.x?
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> ________________________________________
> From: rsyslog-bounces [at] lists [rsyslog-bounces [at] lists] On Behalf Of Vlad Grigorescu [vladg [at] cmu]
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 4:38 PM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Turning on compression only for some logfiles?
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> From the documentation at <http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/omfile.html>:
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> Action specific Configuration Directives:
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> - ZipLevel 0..9 [default 0]
> if greater 0, turns on gzip compression of the output file. The higher the number, the better the
> compression, but also the more CPU is required for zipping.
>
> Sample:
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> *.* action(type="omfile"
> DirCreateMode="0700"
> FileCreateMode="0644"
> File= "/var/log/messages")
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> So, to change compression for that particular action, just add a ZipLevel=$whatever to the action line.
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> --Vlad
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> On Aug 10, 2012, at 5:03 PM, Chastity Blackwell <chas [at] aggregateknowledge>
> wrote:
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>> I'm working on some new rsyslog configs for our log archiving hosts, and
>> one of the things I'd like to do in the new configs is have rsyslog
>> write to the aggregate log archives with gzip compression, but I don't
>> want to have its system logs being written to /var/log in a compressed
>> format (just so they are easier to read if I just want to debug that
>> particular host). Can I specify $OMFileZipLevel for a single ruleset
>> somehow, or can I only specify that globally?
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