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WEll i am a bit stuck again....
whenever i start rsyslog i get a message saying "rsyslogd is running in compatibility mode. Automatically generated config directives may interfer with your rsyslog.conf settings. We suggest upgrading your config and adding -c3 as the first rsyslogd option".
Now if i add -c3 to my /etc/default/rsyslog file (RSYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-c3 -r -f /etc/init.d/rsyslog.conf")
i get the message -r can only run in compatibility modes 0 to 2. Option is dissabled....
I need -r to get logs from my routers....
Any ideas?

TY:)

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Please review http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-v3compatibility.html

The -r option has changed (is gone away). Now if you turn off compatibility mode, rsyslog assumes that you have a native v3 config and for that you need to change a couple of things. The doc will tell you what and how

Hi,

You can get the problem solved by starting the service rsyslog manually instead of giving "service rsyslog start"
you can run it manually by giving the command

/usr/local/sbin/rsyslogd -c3 -f /etc/rsyslog.conf

here /usr/local/sbin/ is applicable only if you did not give any prefix location for rsyslog while installing it.

If at all you want to run the service rsyslog as "service rsyslog start" you need to change its initialization script
/etc/init.d/rsyslog

you should modify the following option

# Source config
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/syslog ] ; then
. /etc/sysconfig/syslog
RSYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-c3 -f /etc/rsyslog.conf"
else
RSYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-c3 -f /etc/rsyslog.conf"
KLOGD_OPTIONS="-2"
fi

You can also survive by changing the starting option in /etc/sysconfig/syslog file with out changing /etc/init.d/rsyslog file

Regards,
Prakash.