rsyslog Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the rsyslog cookbook.

v1.7.0

Improvement

COOK-3253 - Enable repeated message reduction
COOK-3190 - Allow specifying which logs to send to remote server
COOK-2355 - Support forwarding events to more than one server

v1.6.0

New Feature

[COOK-2831]: enable high precision timestamps

Bug

[COOK-2377]: calling node.save has adverse affects on nodes relying on a searched node's ohai attributes
[COOK-2521]: rsyslog cookbook incorrectly sets directory ownership to rsyslog user
[COOK-2540]: Syslogd needs to be disabled before starting rsyslogd on RHEL 5

Improvement

[COOK-2356]: rsyslog service supports status. Service should use it.
[COOK-2357]: rsyslog cookbook copies in wrong defaults file on Ubuntu !9.10/10.04

v1.5.0

[COOK-2141] - Add $PreserveFQDN configuration directive

v1.4.0

[COOK-1877] - RHEL 6 support and refactoring

v1.3.0

[COOK-1189] - template change does not restart rsyslog on Ubuntu

This actually went into 1.2.0 with action :reload, but that change has been reverted and the action is back to :restart.

v1.2.0

[COOK-1678] - syslog user does not exist on debian 6.0 and ubuntu versions lower than 11.04
[COOK-1650] - enable max message size configuration via attribute

v1.1.0

Changes from COOK-1167:

More versatile server discovery - use the IP as an attribute, or use search (see README)
Removed cron dependency.
Removed log archival; logrotate is recommended.
Add an attribute to select the per-host directory in the log dir
Works with Chef Solo now.
Set debian/ubuntu default user and group. Drop privileges to syslog.adm.

v1.0.0

[COOK-836] - use an attribute to specify the role to search for instead of relying on the rsyslog['server'] attribute.
Clean up attribute usage to use strings instead of symbols.
Update this README.
Better handling for chef-solo.