Created attachment 485566 [details, diff] patch with rsyslog action names It would be helpful to have names associated with the default rsyslog actions so that when pstats (http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/modules/impstats.html) is enabled in rsyslog you could tie actions to what they represent. Without names on actions you get output like the following: rsyslogd-pstats: action 8: origin=core.action processed=0 failed=0 suspended=0 suspended.duration=0 resumed=0 With names on actions the output looks like rsyslogd-pstats: mail_action: origin=core.action processed=0 failed=0 suspended=0 suspended.duration=0 resumed=0 As you can see this can make a big difference when it comes to debugging where messages are being queued and what is going on with rsyslog forwarding. I've attached a first pass at a patch that would add what I consider to be reasonable names to the actions. Please review and let me know what you think.
That's a great enhancement. Thank you. I am just unsure about the default naming schema, i.e. "action_" prefix. I'll think about it/ping upstream for best practice before I'll add it.
Sounds good! Thanks for your consideration!
Added with app-admin/rsyslog-8.29.0 via https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c3675fd960dd315ea50f5973ac8541bdfc9709bb I picked "<type>_<name>" schema, as you can name inputs for example as well.
