topic crcSalt noob questions in Getting Data In

crcSalt noob questions

StevenClarke — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:52:12 GMT

I'm going to tie a few questions into 1 as they all relate to crcSalt!

The doco says "copy stanza from default to local".
My problem is that with a GUI built forwarder reading a windows folder and sub folders - I can't see a specific monitor stanza that I am editing.
Do I
a: Just put a stanza [MONITOR] into the local inputs.conf with the crcSalt= line in it and hope it works?
b: Try to find out what the actual [MONITOR] stanza should be and re-create that in the local inputs.conf?
The same file system includes logs that role over - how do I make sure that the crcSalt implementation doesn't force re-reading of those files? I understand that "source" will force resalting of every file - how do I make it:
a: Salt the files I want; and
b: not Salt rolling log files?

Thanks in advance

Steve

Re: crcSalt noob questions

MuS — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:57:28 GMT

hi StevenClarke

why do you want to use crcSalt? usually one just set it up if there are problems for example with 'file to small' messages.

cheers,
MuS

Re: crcSalt noob questions

StevenClarke — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:16:16 GMT

That's just it MuS - I'm getting the file too small errors and more importantly similar config files in subdirectories not being indexed due crc error (looks the same).