Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd.Among others, it offers support for on-demand diskbuffering, reliable syslog over TCP, writing todatabases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and manymore), email alerting, fully configurable outputformats (including high-precision timestamps), theability to filter on any part of the syslogmessage, on-the-wire message compression, and theability to convert text files to syslog. It is adrop-in replacement for stock syslogd and able towork with the same configuration file syntax.License: GNU General Public License v3Changes:
This release adds a new property, "fromhost-ip",which enables usersto obtain the IP address of the syslog sender,irrelevant of the -xoption setting. It adds a number of bugfixes, manyin the TLS area. Thisversion is a recommended update for alldevelopment branch users. Itis quite stable. It is not yet suggested to usethe TLS functionalityoutside of test environments.

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