From 05a50a2e29cf794127b71d136da7816ad391fe7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 15:07:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] rsyslog: Enable queuing of log messages.

This prevents messages from getting lost when the log vserver is
temporarily unavailable.
---
 etc/rsyslog.conf | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/rsyslog.conf b/etc/rsyslog.conf
index a3076b2..ffcfd33 100644
--- a/etc/rsyslog.conf
+++ b/etc/rsyslog.conf
@@ -80,5 +80,15 @@ 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
-- 
2.30.2