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Rewriting mmanon

By Jan GerhardsPosted on August 16, 2017Posted in anonymization, ipv4, ipv6, Linux, logs, mmanon, rsyslog

Currently, rsyslog’s mmanon module has the task of anonymizing ip-addresses. However, due to only being able to anonymize ipv4-addresses, I decided to overhaul the module to be able to also work with ipv6-addresses (see this feature request). In doing this, I also noticed some bugs with the ipv4-module. Now there are two options: try to […]

Improving rsyslog debug output

By Jan GerhardsPosted on August 8, 2017Posted in debug, development, Linux, rsyslog

Currently, our debug output is focused on one group and one group only: developers. For them, debug output right now is a nice but sometimes hard to analyze tool. However, the debug output has a way bigger potential in a plethora of uses. We are currently working on refactoring the debug output. This has been […]