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An Ubuntu base image emerged from Phusion baseimage-docker

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Control syslog-ng via ENV variables #7

Open guedressel opened 7 years ago

guedressel commented 7 years ago

Currently syslog-ng just streams everything to a remote service. There are some use cases where this is not convenient.

Some example switches would be

stream to stdout
stream to file
allow mixing of (above) stream targets

This could be accomplished in the check.sh script...

guedressel commented 7 years ago

Funny fact: I implemented such a switching since the beginning but eventually forgot about it. After I read my own manual i remembered...

Though: I refactored the logic of how the switch happens. Before every sub-image where required to switch their extra syslog-ng configs themself. But now they may put their configurations in different directories to let the base image logic use the configs from the right directory:

/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/*.conf This files will be included every time
/etc/syslog-ng/conf-stdout.d/*.conf Such files are used if LOG_TO=stdout
/etc/syslog-ng/conf-fluent.d/*.conf Used when LOG_TO=fluent

What's left to do ist to document these recent changes in the README.md