From: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 13:07:22 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: rsyslog: Enable queuing of log messages.
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rsyslog: Enable queuing of log messages.

This prevents messages from getting lost when the log vserver is
temporarily unavailable.
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diff --git a/etc/rsyslog.conf b/etc/rsyslog.conf
index 088b8bb..7b95903 100644
--- a/etc/rsyslog.conf
+++ b/etc/rsyslog.conf
@@ -79,5 +79,15 @@ local0,local1,local2,\
 #### Remote logging ####
 ########################
 
-# Send all log entries to the log vserver
-*.*				:omrelp:log:514;RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format
+# Send all log entries to the log vserver, but queue them in memory as well as
+# on disk if needed.
+$WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog
+# Use a linked list for queueing
+$ActionQueueType LinkedList
+# Name to use for the queue file
+$ActionQueueFileName remote
+# infinite retries on insert failure
+$ActionResumeRetryCount -1
+# save in-memory data if rsyslog shuts down
+$ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown on
+*.*				@@log;RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format