From 1dbb68f3dc5c7ae94bdea5ad37296cbc2224e92b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jiri Vymazal <jvymazal@redhat.com>

Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:24:57 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] Added WorkAroundJournalBug parameter

this is documentation for rsyslog/rsyslog#2543

---

 source/configuration/modules/imjournal.rst | 7 +++++++

 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/source/configuration/modules/imjournal.rst b/source/configuration/modules/imjournal.rst

index 2530ddfe..85ca9e7d 100644

--- a/source/configuration/modules/imjournal.rst

+++ b/source/configuration/modules/imjournal.rst

@@ -99,6 +99,13 @@ -  **usepidfromsystem** [**off**/on]

    Retrieves the trusted systemd parameter, _PID, instead of the user 

    systemd parameter, SYSLOG_PID, which is the default.

+-  **WorkAroundJournalBug** [**off**/on]

+

+    When journald instance rotates its files it is possible that duplicate records 

+    appear in rsyslog. If you turn on this option imjournal will keep track of cursor

+    with each message to work around this problem. Be aware that in some cases this

+    might result in imjournal performance hit.

+

 **Caveats/Known Bugs:**

 - As stated above, a corrupted systemd journal database can cause major