This is a maintenance release offering a set of bug fixes. It is suggested that users of the v5-stable branch update to this release. http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-5-8-1-v5-stable/ » bugfix: invalid processing in QUEUE_FULL condition If the the multi-submit interface was used and a QUEUE_FULL condition occured, the failed message was properly destructed. However, the rest of the input batch, if it existed, was not processed. So this lead to potential loss of messages and a memory leak. The potential loss of messages was IMHO minor, because they would have been dropped in most cases due to the queue remaining full, but very few lucky ones from the batch may have made it. Anyhow, this has now been changed so that the rest of the batch is properly tried to be enqueued and, if not possible, destructed. » new module mmsnmptrapd, a sample message modification module This can be useful to reformat snmptrapd messages and also serves as a sample for how to write message modification modules using the output module interface. Note that we introduced this new functionality directly into the stable release, as it does not modify the core and as such cannot have any side-effects if it is not used (and thus the risk is solely on users requiring that functionality). » bugfix: rate-limiting inside imuxsock did not work 100% correct reason was that a global config variable was invalidly accessed where a listener variable should have been used. Also performance-improved the case when rate limiting is turned off (this is a very unintrusive change, thus done directly to the stable version). » bugfix: $myhostname not available in RainerScript (and no error message) closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=233 » bugfix: memory and file descriptor leak in stream processing Leaks could occur under some circumstances if the file stream handler errored out during the open call. Among others, this could cause very big memory leaks if there were a problem with unreadable disk queue files. In regard to the memory leak, this closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256 » bugfix: doc for impstats had wrong config statements also, config statements were named a bit inconsistent, resolved that problem by introducing an alias and only documenting the consistent statements Thanks to Marcin for bringing up this problem. » bugfix: IPv6-address could not be specified in omrelp this was due to improper parsing of “:” closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250 » bugfix: TCP connection invalidly aborted when messages needed to be discarded (due to QUEUE_FULL or similar problem) » bugfix: $LocalHostName was not honored under all circumstances closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=258 » bugfix(minor): improper template function call in syslogd.c Reproducible: Always
Hi Opportunist, and thanks (again) for your report. I just fixed this in tree, I also added some modules by default which are new in the 5.8.x series. +*rsyslog-5.8.1 (23 May 2011) + + 23 May 2011; Ultrabug <ultrabug@gentoo.org> -rsyslog-5.8.0-r1.ebuild, + +rsyslog-5.8.1.ebuild: + Version bump, drop previous bugged 5.8.x version. Thanks to Opportunist for + spotting, fix #368193 Have a nice day
