The - does not throw a syntax error, but is ignored for many years. iIRC it
caused a sync after each write, which would be crazy for actual systems.

Rainer

Sent from phone, thus brief.

John Chivian via rsyslog <rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com> schrieb am Do., 29.
Sep. 2022, 23:25:

> If I am not mistaken, buffering is the default in the new syntax such that
> it is not necessary to state it explicitly.  The maintainers will know for
> sure.
>
>
>
> > On Sep 29, 2022, at 15:54, Gordon Marler (BLOOMBERG/ 120 PARK) via
> rsyslog <rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com> wrote:
> >
> > In the old style of rsyslog configuration, you can say that you want to
> buffer a file, rather than flush it after every write, with syntax like
> this (prefixing the filename with '-'):
> >
> > local4.info         -/var/log/mylog
> >
> > Reading the documentation of the omfile Output Module, I don't see an
> exact way to specify the exact same end result documented, such that you
> could write something like:
> >
> > local4.info {
> >  action( type="omfile" file="/var/log/mylog" ...)
> > }
> >
> > I see all the following, but not sure of the exact combined config to
> equate to the old syntax:
> >
> > * flushInterval
> > * asyncWriting
> > * flushOnTxEnd
> > * ioBufferSize
> > * sync
> >
> > Thanks for any insight into achieving this goal.
> >
> > GM
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