Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd. Among others, it offers support for on-demand disk buffering, reliable syslog over TCP, SSL, TLS, and RELP, writing to databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and many more), email alerting, fully configurable output formats (including high-precision timestamps), the ability to filter on any part of the syslog message, on-the-wire message compression, and the ability to convert text files to syslog. It is a drop-in replacement for stock syslogd and able to work with the same configuration file syntax. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
This is primarily a stability update. Most importantly, this version addresses a potential segfault that occurred rather infrequently, and primarily on very fast and busy systems. The only other change is a fix for the $PreserveFQDN config directive, which did not properly affect locally emitted messages. This is a recommended update for all users of the development branch.