Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:34:30 +0000 (UTC) From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r436152 - head/sysutils/rsyslog8 Message-ID: <201703141334.v2EDYUMb057461@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: matthew Date: Tue Mar 14 13:34:30 2017 New Revision: 436152 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/436152 Log: Update pkg-descr using the text of the blurb from ww.rsyslog.com - we aren't tracking v7 any more. The clue is in the port name: sysutils/rsyslog8 Reported by: des Modified: head/sysutils/rsyslog8/pkg-descr Modified: head/sysutils/rsyslog8/pkg-descr ============================================================================== --- head/sysutils/rsyslog8/pkg-descr Tue Mar 14 13:21:21 2017 (r436151) +++ head/sysutils/rsyslog8/pkg-descr Tue Mar 14 13:34:30 2017 (r436152) @@ -1,19 +1,14 @@ -Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd with a focus on -security and reliability. +RSYSLOG is the rocket-fast system for log processing. -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 offers high-performance, great security features and a modular +design. While it started as a regular syslogd, rsyslog has evolved +into a kind of swiss army knife of logging, being able to accept +inputs from a wide variety of sources, transform them, and output to +the results to diverse destinations. -It is a drop-in replacement for stock syslogd and able to work with -the same configuration file syntax. Its advanced features make it -suitable for enterprise-class, encryption protected syslog relay -chains while at the same time being very easy to setup for the -novice user. - -Tracking v7-devel +RSYSLOG can deliver over one million messages per second to local +destinations when limited processing is applied (based on v7, December +2013). Even with remote destinations and more elaborate processing the +performance is usually considered "stunning". WWW: http://www.rsyslog.com/
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